installation art

Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Chicago

In relation to the Feminist Art Program’s Womanhouse project, I came across another interesting installation project launched this week by the Art Institute of Chicago as a part of their exhibition Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, which will show all three versions of Van Gogh’s portrait of his bedroom in Arles together for the first time in …

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Womanhouse

Womanhouse was a socially engaged collaborative art project run by Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro at the California Institute of the Arts that began in 1971.  The idea was conceived of by Paula Harper, who joined the faculty of the Feminist Art Program at CalArts, and grew to become an all encompassing project that relied …

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