Just Above Midtown Gallery, founded by Linda Goode Bryant, was a space of artistic experimentation and innovation for Black artists and artists of color in New York City.
Post Minimalism: 1966-1980
The sculptures of Lynda Benglis express nature and feeling through their organic forms and textures.
Lynda Benglis – ‘Form and Texture Create ...
A key artist of the arte povera movement, Michelangelo Pistoletto came to London in May to recreate a seminal 1966 performance in which he rolled a ball of newspapers through the streets of Turin
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Newspaper Sphere
Giap’s Igloo by Mario Merz invites you to consider your actions, and how those actions contribute to our larger existence.
Mario Merz, Giap’s Igloo
Colescott asks—what are the implicit messages about Black womanhood embedded in American visual culture?
Robert Colescott, I Gets a Thrill Too ...
Me and My Neon Box embodies Kay WalkingStick’s process of working through questions about painting, sexuality, gender, and race.
Kay WalkingStick, Me and My Neon Box
Hesse proves that powerful, emotionally charged art doesn't have to be pretty.
The last work of Eva Hesse
Alternative art spaces created new paths and possibilities for art in the wake of modernism.
Alternative art spaces in New York City
Beginning in 1973, Self Help Graphics and Art helped to redeploy the Mexican Día de Muertos for their neighborhoods in East Los Angeles to help the a Chicana/o and broader Latinx communities in the city.
Self Help Graphics and Art
Royal Chicano Air Force, blending humor, politics, and public art since the early 1970s
Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF)
Judy Chicago's landmark installation gives notable women from history a seat at the table.
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
The idea of sculpture was the subject of Antin’s work, which interrogates beauty, gender, and “traditional” art.
Eleanor Antin, Carving: A Traditional Sculpture
This sculpture was hanging in the artist’s studio at the time of her death; it can be hung in numerous ways.
Eva Hesse, Untitled (Rope Piece)
Women’s labor and the passage of time are evoked in this sculpture constructed of organic materials.
Jackie Winsor, #1 Rope
Her friends were into high conceptualism, but Hesse’s own approach is more playful, bodily, and feminist.
Eva Hesse, Untitled
Motherhood is explored and documented—but not sugarcoated—in Kelly’s five-year-long project.
Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document
Male and female forms reveal and conceal themselves simultaneously in this polished marble sculpture.
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