– Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” A MAN WITH a scythe cuts into a sea of wheat. His back to us, he is everyman, any man, and war is not apparent. Not until you read the title, ...

The most telling lines in Nancy Princenthal’s essential new book, Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s, are those that frame the two words of its title with context, ...

In “Unspeakable Acts,” a new book about how artists have made sense (or not) of sexual violence against women, Nancy Princenthal draws a subtle but crucial distinction: Just because an act was long ...

Continuing the cavalcade of great shows by female artists this month—including Elena del Rivero at Lawrimore Project and Melissa Pokorny at Platform Gallery—is Pakistani-born Humaira Abid's stunning ...

"The 1970s was a time of deep division and newfound freedoms. Galvanized by 'The Second Sex' and 'The Feminine Mystique', the civil rights movement and the March on Washington, a new generation put ...