EXHIBITIONS · FEMINISM AND ART
Laura Cottingham
They said later that they were friends from the first minute of fifth grade, from the very first.
— from Bad girls
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Adrian Piper
Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of conceptual art since the 1960s. Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological and spiritual potential of conceptual art have had an incalculable influence on artists working today. Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date, this catalog presents more than 280 artworks that encompass the full range of Piper's mediums: works on paper, video, multimedia installation, performance, painting, sound and photo-texts. Essays by curators and scholars examine her extensive research into altered states of consciousness; the introduction of the Mythic Being - her subversive masculine alter-ego; her media and installation works from after 1980, which reveal and challenge stereotypes of race and gender; and the global conditions that illuminate the significance of her art. Previously unpublished texts by the artist lay out significant events in her personal history and her deeply felt ideas about the relationship between viewer and art object. This publication expands our understanding of the conceptual and post-conceptual art movements and Piper's pivotal position among her peers and for later generations.
Bad girls
When a French secret service operative is murdered on a lonely Alpine highway, a womanizing CIA agent must find the killer and terminate ... with Extreme Prejudice. Back in the states, the same agent discovers ... The Only Good Red. Three years after a bank robbery goes bad, a convict on the verge of parole learns that his partner’s wife really knows how to set up a ... Con Job. When an attractive young woman borrows money for a new car, it’s the loan manager who learns never to trust the ... First Blonde on the Left. After an account executive visits a fortune teller, he discovers there’s ... A Price to Pay. A dead man dressed like a woman and the cop leading the investigation aren’t what they seem until you peel away the ... Husks. When two ex-cons try to return an unwanted engagement ring, they find themselves stuck between the ... Rock and a Hard Place. A husband, a wife, and a hired killer soon learn that ... Three’s a Shroud. A disgraced jockey and his girlfriend take matters into their own hands and there’s ... Vengeance to Show in the Third. An ex-con can’t believe his luck when a naked socialite seduces him. He soon learns not to throw his stones at ... Glass Houses. They do bad things. For Love. For Money. For Fun. They're ... Bad Girls.