Listen in as in depth interviews speak to curator and artist Lubaina Himid, conceptual and performance artist Marina Abramović, and writer Olivia Laing. With over 100 episodes Hessel spotlights female artists along with curators, writers, and art connoisseurs to reshape our notions of the male dominated art sphere. In tandem with her latest book release, Katy Hessel is also a part of your soon-to-be favorite podcast The Great Women Artists. In spite of it all, Kusama has endured and has created a legacy of artwork that spans the disciplines of painting, sculpture, installation art, performance art, poetry and literary fiction. The driving force of her academic career was to end the. Kusama was an underdog with everything stacked against her: the trauma of growing up in Japan during World War II, life in a dysfunctional family that discouraged her creative ambitions, sexism and racism in the art establishment, mental illness in a culture where that was particularly shameful and even continuing to pursue and be devoted to her art full time on the cusp of her 90s. The essay Nochlin was writing Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists changed art history as the world knew it. For decades, her work pushed boundaries that often alienated her from both her peers and those in power in the art world. Now the top-selling female artist in the world, Yayoi Kusama overcame impossible odds to bring her radical artistic vision to the world stage.
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