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ArtFem.TV: Feminist Artistic Subversion and Infiltration of a Male Net Culture

July 27, 2010 by ArtFem.TV

ArtFem.TV is an online television programming presenting Art and Feminism. The aim of ArtFem.TV is to foster Women in the Arts, their art works and projects, to create an international online television screen for the creativity, images and voices of Women. ArtFem.TV is a non-profit artist-run ITV and media art portal about Art and Feminism founded by Evelin Stermitz in the year 2008.

Seizing Justice: The Greensboro 4

July 23, 2010 by Smithsonian Channel

In the early ’90s I was visiting Greensboro, North Carolina, for work when we drove past the Woolworth's store there. Someone commented that it was where the first lunch counter sit-ins had taken place. I wanted to go inside but was told, “It’s just like every other Woolworth store now,” and we kept driving.

SJMA acquires major Catherine Opie photograph

July 14, 2010 by San Jose Museum...

The San Jose Museum of Art recently acquired a major photograph by Catherine Opie, a gift of the Lipman Family Foundation. Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina is from the “Domestic” series, which Opie produced while traveling for two months across the country in her motor home. Opie captured lesbian couples engaged in commonplace activities—sitting around the kitchen table or lounging in the backyard pool.

Chris Jordan photographs from "Midway: Message from the Gyre" portfolio on view at SJMA

July 12, 2010 by San Jose Museum...

A lawyer turned environmental activist, Chris Jordan sees his work as a way to shed light on the silent degradation of nature ordinarily invisible to the eye. He traveled to the Midway Atoll, an extremely remote island in the North Pacific Ocean, 2,000 miles from the nearest land. Although the Island is a wildlife refuge, it has proved vulnerable to manmade pollution.