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Marjorie Kramer
Marjorie Kramer (born 1943 in Englewood, NJ, raised in Greenwich, CT) is a figurative painter of al fresco landscapes and feminist self-portraits.Barbara Love, ed., “Marjorie Kramer,” ''Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975'' (University of Illinois Press, 2006), 263. Early life and feminism Kramer has a BFA from Cooper Union and was a founding student in 1964 at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, and studied with Mercedes Matter, Charles Cajori and Louis Finkelstein. She donated a portion of her small inheritance to pay the School’s first month’s rent of $500. Kramer was a founding editor with Irene Peslikis and others of the ''Woman and Art Quarterly'' (1969–71), the first women artists' publication. From 1968 to 1973, Kramer organized shows of work by women artists, including ''SoHo Women's Artists'' in a Canal Street loft with Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) and ''Feminist Art'' at Columbia University with Patricia Mainardi. With these ...
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Marjorie Kramer
Marjorie Kramer (born 1943 in Englewood, NJ, raised in Greenwich, CT) is a figurative painter of al fresco landscapes and feminist self-portraits.Barbara Love, ed., “Marjorie Kramer,” ''Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975'' (University of Illinois Press, 2006), 263. Early life and feminism Kramer has a BFA from Cooper Union and was a founding student in 1964 at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, and studied with Mercedes Matter, Charles Cajori and Louis Finkelstein. She donated a portion of her small inheritance to pay the School’s first month’s rent of $500. Kramer was a founding editor with Irene Peslikis and others of the ''Woman and Art Quarterly'' (1969–71), the first women artists' publication. From 1968 to 1973, Kramer organized shows of work by women artists, including ''SoHo Women's Artists'' in a Canal Street loft with Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) and ''Feminist Art'' at Columbia University with Patricia Mainardi. With these ...
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Art Workers Coalition
The Art Workers' Coalition (AWC) was an open coalition of artists, filmmakers, writers, critics, and museum staff that formed in New York City in January 1969. Its principal aim was to pressure the city's museums – notably the Museum of Modern Art – into implementing economic and political reforms. These included a more open and less exclusive exhibition policy concerning the artists they exhibited and promoted: the absence of women artists and artists of color was a principal issue of contention, which led to the formation of Women Artists in Revolution (WAR) in 1969. The coalition successfully pressured the MoMA and other museums into implementing a free admission day that still exists in certain museums to this day. It also pressured and picketed museums into taking a moral stance on the Vietnam War which resulted in its famous My Lai poster ''And babies'', one of the most important works of political art of the early 1970s. The poster was displayed during demonstrations in fr ...
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Grey Art Gallery
The Grey Art Gallery is New York University’s fine art museum, located on historic Washington Square Park, in New York City's Greenwich Village. As a university art museum, the Grey Art Gallery functions to collect, preserve, study, document, interpret, and exhibit the evidence of human culture. While these goals are common to all museums, the Grey distinguishes itself by emphasizing art's historical, cultural, and social contexts, with experimentation and interpretation as integral parts of programmatic planning. Thus, in addition to being a place to view the objects of material culture, the Gallery serves as a museum-laboratory in which a broader view of an object's environment enriches our understanding of its contribution to civilization. In 1974, Abby Weed Grey established the Grey Art Gallery (originally known as the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center) at New York University, both as a permanent home for her art collection and to promote international artistic exchange in an ...
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National Academy Museum And School
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition." Membership is limited to 450 American artists and architects, who are elected by their peers on the basis of recognized excellence. History The original founders of the National Academy of Design were students of the American Academy of the Fine Arts. However, by 1825 the students of the American Academy felt a lack of support for teaching from the academy, its board composed of merchants, lawyers, and physicians, and from its unsympathetic president, the painter John Trumbull. Samuel Morse and other students set about forming "the drawing association", to meet several times each week for the study of the art of design. Still, the association was viewed as a dependent organizatio ...
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New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ...
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Ken Johnson (art Critic)
Ken Johnson (born 1953 in Montclair, New Jersey) is an American artist and art critic who lives in New York City. Johnson was a writer for the arts pages of ''The New York Times'' until 2016, where he covered gallery and museum exhibits. Previously he wrote for Arts Magazine and Art in America. He is currently a painter, and exhibited a series of well-received paintings in April 2022 at Kerry Schluss Gallery in Manhattan. Johnson attended Brown University and University at Albany, SUNY, earning a degree in art from the former in 1976 and a master's degree in studio art, with a concentration in painting, from the latter in 1977. In his journalism career he has written on contemporary art for several art magazines, newspapers and publications. He published for the Art Review in the ''New York Times,'' doing reviews for artists in NYC such as Don Doe. He was the art critic for the ''Boston Globe'' from 2006 to 2007. He is also an educator, having taught courses in painting, d ...
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Cindy Nemser
Cindy Heller Nemser (March 26, 1937 – January 26, 2021) was an American art historian and writer. Founder and editor of the ''Feminist Art Journal'', she was an activist and prominent figure in the feminist art movement and was best known for her writing on the work of women artists such as Eva Hesse, Alice Neel, and Louise Nevelson. Early life Nemser was born Cecile Heller in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of William Heller and Helen (Nelson) Heller. After attending Midwood High School, she earned a B.A. in Education and—while teaching elementary school—an M.A. in English and American Literature from Brooklyn College. She then enrolled at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, where she received her M.A. in Art History in 1966. While at the Institute, Nemser wrote exhibition reviews for ''Arts Magazine'' alongside her studies. In 1956, she married Charles S. Nemser. Career After completing an internship at the Museum of Modern Art, Nemser continued to be i ...
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Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a wealthy and prominent American socialite, sculptor, and art patron after whom it is named. The Whitney focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Its permanent collection, spanning the late-19th century to the present, comprises more than 25,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and artifacts of new media by more than 3,500 artists. It places particular emphasis on exhibiting the work of living artists as well as maintaining an extensive permanent collection of important pieces from the first half of the last century. The museum's Annual and Whitney Biennial, Biennial exhibitions have long been a venue for younger and lesser-known artists whose work is showcased th ...
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Joe Gould (bohemian)
Joseph Ferdinand Gould (12 September 188918 August 1957) was an American eccentric, also known as Professor Seagull. Often homeless, he claimed to be the author of the longest book ever written, ''An Oral History of the Contemporary World'', also known as ''An Oral History of Our Time'' or ''Meo Tempore''. He inspired the book ''Joe Gould's Secret'' (1965) by Joseph Mitchell, and its film adaptation (2000), and is a character in the 2009 computer game ''The Blackwell Convergence''. Biography Gould was born in a small suburb outside Boston in 1889. Jill Lepore speculated that he had hypergraphia. In his room at his parents’ house, in Norwood, Massachusetts, Gould had written all over the walls and all over the floor. He exhibited what can today be understood as symptoms of autism and did poorly in school. He attended Harvard University because his family wanted him to become a physician; both his grandfather, who taught at Harvard Medical School, and his father, also a medical d ...
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Lawrence Alloway
Lawrence Reginald Alloway (17 September 1926 – 2 January 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US. He first used the term "mass popular art" in the mid-1950s and used the term " Pop Art" in the 1960s to indicate that art has a basis in the popular culture of its day and takes from it a faith in the power of images. From 1954 until his death in 1990, he was married to the painter Sylvia Sleigh. Early life and education Between 1943 and 1947, Alloway studied art history at the University of London, where he met the future critic and curator David Sylvester. Alloway wrote short book reviews for the London ''Times'' in 1944 and 1945, at which time he was between 17 and 19 years old. Work Early career and the Independent Group Alloway started writing reviews for the British periodical ''Art News and ...
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Menstruation
Menstruation (also known as a period, among other colloquial terms) is the regular discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the inner lining of the uterus through the vagina. The menstrual cycle is characterized by the rise and fall of hormones. Menstruation is triggered by falling progesterone levels and is a sign that pregnancy has not occurred. The first period, a point in time known as menarche, usually begins between the ages of 12 and 15. Menstruation starting as young as 8 years would still be considered normal. The average age of the first period is generally later in the developing world, and earlier in the developed world. The typical length of time between the first day of one period and the first day of the next is 21 to 45 days in young women. In adults, the range is between 21 and 31 days with the average being 28 days. Bleeding usually lasts around 2 to 7 days. Periods stop during pregnancy and typically do not resume during the initial months of breastfeed ...
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Juanita McNeely
Juanita McNeely (born 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American feminist artist known for her bold works that illustrate the nude female experience in her figurative paintings, prints, paper cut-outs and ceramic pieces. Feminist elements in her work include the portrayal of female experiences such as abortion, rape, and menstruation with a display of powerful emotion.Joan Semmel and April Kingsley, "Sexual Imagery in Women's Art," ''Woman's Art Journal'' 1, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 1980): 1–6. Her recurring health problems and expressive figurative compositions have prompted comparisons to Frida Kahlo.Joan Marter, "The Work of Juanita McNeely," in ''Juanita McNeely: Indomitable Spirit'' (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University, 2014: 5. According to McNeely, "we as women must continue the struggle to hold on to our rights, or let the children lead the way." Early life In her early years, McNeely spent time at the Saint Louis Art Museum, where she saw works by Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse ...
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