GWA Newsletter September '22 II
Artwork of the week: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, The Twain Shall Meet, 2015
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Dear Great Women Art Lovers,
I hope this newsletter finds you well.
I write with exciting news — last Sunday The Story of Art Without Men was announced as a Sunday Times Bestseller! It made its debut at No.6 in the charts, and Waldemar Januszczak gave us a fantastic write up on the book and its corresponding exhibition The Story of Art as It’s Still Being Written (on view at Victoria Miro until 1 Oct).
Celebrate with us at our rescheduled book launch, 6–8.30pm on Wednesday 28 September at Victoria Miro Gallery, where you will be able to purchase a book and have it signed by me. Open to all, so bring all your art loving friends!
Can’t make it? There are plenty more upcoming talks — see a list of them here.
A few other updates: in the past couple weeks we wrote about Lee Miller’s Portrait of Space (1937) for the Guardian discussing the strange passage of time between the death of the Queen and the new coronation, and the unknowingness of what’s to come. We spoke to Somaya Critchlow for Gagosian Quarterly, and made appearances on the Hatchards, Waterstones, and Art Basel podcasts.
And for those lucky subscribers in the US, I am delighted to let you know first that The Story of Art without Men will be out in the US and Canada on 7 March 2023. We are prepping the book tour now, so let us know where we should visit you!
Love
Katy xoxo
Here are your top 5s:
5 Shows in Britain
Jadé Fadojutimi at Hepworth Wakefield
Maria Bartuszová at Tate Modern
Marina Abramović at Modern Art Oxford
Very Private? featuring Duncan Grant alongside Somaya Critchlow, Harold Offeh, Kadie Salmon, Tim Walker, Alison Wilding and Ajamu X at Charleston
Zahra at Output Gallery, Liverpool
5 Shows Overseas
María Berrío at Victoria Miro, Venice
Maya Lin at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Sara Anstis at Kasmin, NYC
Sofonisba Anguissola at the Nivaagaard Collection, Denmark
Toyin Ojih Odutola at SFMOMA, San Francisco
5 Artists Discovered
Jean Conner - 89 year old collage artist working in America since the 1950s, creating equally entertaining and poignant works which feel like candid clusters of the artist’s mind on paper with little hesitation made in advance of each work.
Lucia Marcucci - Italian artist working at the height of the 60s — at the same time as Pop Art in the US — Marcucci and those in Gruppo 70 made eye-catching collages filled with political slogans and ubiquitous newspaper images to comment on the changing world as they knew it.
Pritika Chowdhry - Contemporary artist responding to the partition of British India into an independent India and Pakistan and later conflict in the establishment of Bangladesh. Creating vessels and installing ruinous architecture, her works feel like artefacts relaying a palpable sense of loss.
Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo-Ross - Recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with a current exhibition of her sturdy ceramics and paintings based on early 20th century colonial photography in West Africa and the Caribbean at BRIC, Brooklyn.
Tomashi Jackson - American artist whose often tilted canvases at times contain found materials such as paper bags, train tickets, or ballot papers but employ PVC and digital printing methods to produce vibrant colours and a polished screen-like sheen to the works.
5 Things to Read
Sheila Fitzpatrick on Soviet Passports for the London Review of Books with artwork by Anne Rothenstein
M.H. Miller on Diane Arbus for the New York Times
Remembering Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin’s, The Shop with opinions by Hilton Als, Sadie Coles, Emin, Lucas and others, by Frieze
This Long Thread: Women of Color on Craft, Community and Connection by Jen Hewett
Alison by Lizzy Stewart
5 Things to Listen to
MoMA’s Among Others featuring a conversation between Howardena Pindell, Darby English, Ann Temkin on the history of Blackness at MoMA
The Black Curriculum Presents: Sounds of Black Britain
Spotify playlist: Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics featuring Schneemann’s favourite songs
Helen Molesworth on Ana Mendieta, Death of an Artist
In the Black Fantastic with Lina Iris Viktor and Salena Godden
5 Things to Do
21-24 September: Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest at the Barbican
22 September - 1 October, 7pm: Nightly performance alongside Es Devlin’s choral sculpture, Come Home Again, at the Tate Modern Garden
22 September, 5-6pm: Talk on Nancy Spero by Tamar Garb, Mignon Nixon and Jon Bird at Frith Street, Golden Square
29 September 11am-1pm and 5pm-8pm: Exhibition with performances to celebrate the launch of Hettie Judah’s book, How to Not Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) at TJ Boulting
29 September, 8pm: Hannah Collins and Portico Quartet premiering their performance and audio-visual work, Terrain: The Earth Beneath My Feet, at the Barbican
XOXO HAPPY GWA’ing XOXO
Installation view of The Story of Art as it’s Being Written at Victoria Miro Gallery.
Left to right: Chantal Joffe, Prom, 2022; María Berrío, En Tierra del Sol, 2022; Wangechi Mutu, Subterranea Serval, 2022.