Published by Lund Humphries March 2024 in the UK. Available in the US July 2024.

Women's Caucus for Art NY Chapter Invites you to

Women Artists in the New Millennium

A Panel Discussion with Eleanor Heartney, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott

Does it still make sense to talk about art by women as a distinct category? How does the work of women artists reflect contemporary concerns? How are women artists faring vis-a-vis men in the hyper-commercialized contemporary art market? This discussion explores the evolving status and concerns of women artists who followed the pioneering feminist artists of the 1970s.

It brings together three of the four authors of The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium, a book published last fall by the authors of the earlier, prizewinning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art. Eleanor Heartney, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott will discuss the work of women artists born after 1960, with a focus on changing attitudes toward the body, sexuality; the globalization of social and political issues; introspection, dream and fantasy as subversive strategies; and contemporary responses to society's mixed messages about gender roles and the domestic sphere.

Eleanor Heartney is Contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress and author of numerous books on contemporary art.

Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based critic, former Senior Editor of Art in America, and author of a monograph on Hannah Wilke and a forthcoming biography of Agnes Martin.

Sue Scott is an independent curator and writer living in New York and former owner of Sue Scott Gallery.

SYMPOSIUM

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Panel Discussion with the four authors: Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott, along with photographer Catherine Opie.

The book focuses on the accomplishments of 24 acclaimed international women artists born since 1960. The authors will each present on the section of the book that they wrote and Catherine Opie will discuss her work in relationship to ideas of family.

Women Artists in the New Millennium: A Panel Discussion

Does it still make sense to talk about art by women as a distinct category? How does the work of women artists reflect contemporary concerns? How are women artists faring vis-a-vis men in the hyper- commercialized contemporary art market? This panel explores the evolving status and concerns of women artists who followed the pioneering feminist artists of the 1970s. Authors of The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium Eleanor Heartney, Nancy Princenthal, Helaine Posner and Sue Scott discuss the work of women artists born after 1960, with a focus on changing attitudes toward the body and sexuality; the globalization of social and political issues; introspection, dream and fantasy as subversive strategies; and contemporary responses to society’s mixed messages about gender roles and the domestic sphere.

The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium, will be available for purchase and book signing. 

Free and open to the public, no reservations necessary.

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Neuberger Museum of Art

Purchase College, SUNY

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Ruth Beesch Honorary Lecture

Weatherspoon Art Museum (WAM) celebrates the first Ruth Beesch Honorary Lecture with very special guests, Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott, who will discuss their new book, "The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millenium" (Prestel USA, 2013). 

Ruth Beesch was director of the Weatherspoon Art Museum from 1989 until 1997. Among her many achievements were overseeing WAM's move into its new facility in the Anne and Benjamin Cone Building, hiring an expanded professional staff, and gaining accreditation in 1995 from the American Association of Museums. In 1997, Carol and Seymour Levin established a lecture fund in Ruth's honor, and this is the first of these lectures. 

Advance seat reservations available to WAM Members.

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