BAMPFA’s ‘New Time’ Explores Feminisms in Art Over Past 2 Decades

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

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When visitors now walk into the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, they’ll face a mural outlining the earth’s strata designed by the late feminist artist Luchita Hurtado, part of BAMPFA’s newest exhibit “New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century.” The exhibit examines the feminist practice of more than 67 contemporary artists through pieces spanning the past two decades of feminist art. With sections dedicated to examining gender expansivity, the “male gaze” and women’s labor, the exhibit is part of a larger BAMPFA effort to bring together more than 100 arts organizations dedicated to social justice known as the Feminist Art Coalition. We’ll speak with the exhibit’s curator to discuss what it means to center feminism in 21st century art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.9	Welcome back to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film
1:05.4	Archives' newest show is a gathering of more than 140 pieces spanning the first two decades
1:10.7	of the 21st century.
1:12.1	It's called New Time, Art and Feminisms in the 21st century.
1:16.2	And it's like a conceptual map of feminist practice in our time.
1:20.5	Different sections tackle the big themes, the male gays, women's labor, gender expansiveness.
1:25.3	But there are many stunning individual pieces, none more so,
1:28.5	than Kara Walker's monumental 2001 work, endless conundrum in African Anonymous Adventurous,
1:35.1	which honestly worth the price of admission alone.
1:37.8	The exhibit is part of an effort co-founded by curator Aspara de Quinceo to bring together
1:43.2	more than 100 arts organizations dedicated to social justice, known as the Feminist Art Coalition.
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