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    News and Articles on Miriam Schapiro



    WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution  Oct 7, 2008
    Included are such groundbreaking artists as Marina Abramavic, Chantal Akerman, Eleanor Antin, Judith Baca, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Kate Craig, Gathie Falk, Vera Frenkel, Yayoi Kusama, Suzy Lake, Liz Magor, Ana Mendieta, Yoko Ono, Ulrike Ottinger, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, Martha Rosler, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Katharina Sieverding, Nancy Spero, Lisa Steele, Joyce Weiland and Hannah Wilke, among many others. WACK. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    * [ART JOURNAL]: First and last  Jan 17, 2008
    Miriam Schapiro's Little Fan (1975) PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE ... Some - Robert Kushner, Kim MacConnel, Miriam Schapiro - were in California. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Abstract painter was founding dean of the art school at California Institute of the Arts  Dec 6, 2007
    It included performance artist Allan Kaprow, critic Max Kozloff, video artist Nam June Paik and Brach's wife, Miriam Schapiro, who co-founded the CalArts feminist art program. In a free-wheeling atmosphere that encouraged students to think of themselves as artists beginning with their first class, Baldessari taught Post- Studio Art, which covered "all the kind of art you didn't need a studio to deal with," he told the New York Times in 1990. (Los Angeles Times)

    Table for 39click to play audio  Apr 26, 2007
    She was also a pioneer of feminist art education, founding unprecedented programs for women at California State University at Fresno and, with artist Miriam Schapiro, at the California Institute of the Arts. But Chicago's crowning achievement, her great contribution to feminist art and education, is her iconic installation, The Dinner Party, which has just taken up permanent residence at the Brooklyn Museum as the centerpiece of the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. (Slate)

    Narrative Artists  Jan 5, 2007
    The live auction features 20 contemporary paintings, sculptures and drawings by distinguished artists, including Chuck Close, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Elizabeth Catlett, Will Barnet, William Kentridge and Sandy Skoglund. "There are a number of artists of color who are very well known (that are featured) because we've always emphasized diversity as the mission of the center," Ms. Brodsky says, "the idea of reflecting the changing populations of the world and the fact that it's no longer a... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)




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