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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Carolee schneemann | History Defined

‘Not for ogling’: forget Titian, Botticelli and the male fantasists – only women can paint great female nudes

From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that’s why my novel Female, Nude weaves them into the plot

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‘It was quite obviously breathing’: the day Anthony McCall realised his light sculptures were alive

He made his name with exhilarating ‘light sculptures’ that audiences could spend hours inside. But a show in excessively hygienic Sweden led to 20 years in the wilderness. As McCall returns, he relives a pioneering career

The Guardian - UK

Swing and Sway review – creating a feminist haven amid the rise of rightwing politics

Based on footage Fernanda Pessoa and Adriana Barbosa recorded during Covid, this film celebrates female empowerment. It falls short of the pioneers it pays tribute to, but it’s an earnest snapshot of the pandemic

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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin review – when freestyle thinking goes too far

Elkin’s capacious survey of female artists who focused on the body might have worked better as a collection of essays

The Guardian - UK

Art Monsters by Lauren Elkin review – daring to be different

In a blend of criticism and memoir, the author examines the life and work of trailblazing female artists from Vanessa Bell to Carolee Schneemann

The Guardian - UK

Hardcore review – a BDSM paradise that leaves you yearning to join in

With its whips and hoists and axes, this group show is a playground of sexual fetishism – but what was once dangerous or taboo can now appear quaint and cliched

The Guardian - UK

‘She paints with the brush in her ass’: the artists sharing their worst savagings

In the book Bad Reviews, 150 artists have revisited their most brutal critiques – from an ‘unforgiveable’ Carolee Schneemann sculpture to the critic who suggested the artist should be jailed

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‘He captured the flux of sensation itself’: Bridget Riley, Luc Tuymans and other painters on Cézanne’s genius

As Tate Modern opens its first major Cézanne show in 25 years, artists discuss how he has influenced their own work

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Cecil Beaton’s picture brings the Queen back within touching distance

A design by one of Elizabeth II’s favourite photographers is mine for less than the price of a train ticket

The Guardian - UK

Autumn culture guide 2022: From Lucian Freud to My Neighbour Totoro, Blonde to The Crown

We pick the new season’s highlights in our ultimate guide to what to book and binge-watch over the next few months

The Independent UK

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics; Marcus Coates: The Directors – review

Schneemann’s personal life is almost as freely displayed as her genitals in a six-decade retrospective of her fiercely divisive work. Elsewhere, Coates channels the voices inside other people’s heads

The Guardian - UK

Smeared with mackerel, chased by police: the wild, miraculous art of Carolee Schneemann – review

Schneemann was inspirational, confrontational and joyously excessive, pulling art from her vagina and writhing naked through molasses and wallpaper paste. This thrilling show captures the sheer scope of a phenomenal artist

The Guardian - UK

Things to do in London this weekend (September 9-11)

From rooftop cocktails to live podcasts, here are your weekend plans

Evening Standard

Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics at Barbican - her brilliance as an artistic and political force never waned

This survey of work by the feminist art pioneer can get a bit chewy but the seminal pieces are a thrill

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Snakes, scrolls, swinging from chandeliers: how Carolee Schneemann transformed art

She staged an event even Duchamp said was messy, filmed herself having sex, unrolled a script from her vagina – and took art away from canvas and into the stuff of life itself

The Guardian - UK

Orgiastic body art, a Midlands meme and Hockney meets the Pharaohs – the week in art

A fresh look at Carolee Schneemann’s pioneering performance art, ‘four lads in jeans’ immortalised in bronze, and new visions of ancient Egypt

The Guardian - UK

Winslow Homer, Cézanne and Zaha Hadid: the best art and architecture of autumn 2022

The exhibition of the year is here, plus we have South Korean pop culture, a Sudanese women’s champion, decoded Egyptian hieroglyphs, Zaha Hadid’s ‘yonic stadium’ and a rare showing for the ‘American Turner’

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