Feminist art criticism

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: April 4, 1980- Eleanor Munro on women artists

    Today’s program is an interview with art critic Eleanor Munro about her book “Originals: American Women Artists,” hosted and produced by Ann Stubbs.

  • Three women painters

    Lucia Vernarelli, painter and editer of the feminist artist publication “Women and Art,” speaks about three women artists. They are Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956), Leonor Fini (1907 – 1996), and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 – 1907). She uses the personal papers of the artists to aid in understanding them.  From the series “Women’s diaries and…

  • Sex and art: scholarship and vulgarity

    A program on sex and art. Begins with a reading from Edward Albee’s introduction to Atmospheres and Environments, the catalog from the Whitney Museum on the work of Louise Nevelson; excerpts from interview with art critic and curator Lawrence Alloway, who discusses Artforum and its bibliography on women and art; readings from the current issue…