– 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 ...

MFA Art Writing presents writer and program faculty member Nancy Princenthal, who will discuss her new book Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s. Sexual violence became a ...

“Unspeakable,” an exhibition of work by four female artists from three different countries that addresses sensitive topics, will open on Sept. 5 in the Department of Art’s Lower Art Gallery. An ...

We love the Saint Louis Art Museum. We go out of our way to avoid scrutiny from the Department of Homeland Security. And we try never to tick off an Egyptologist—they know all the best curses. But ...

Andre Breton’s Surrealists styled themselves as professional troublemakers, sworn enemies of social and cultural convention, but in their attitudes towards women, the men were remarkably old-fashioned ...

The exhibit at the Alameda Museum looks almost like a forest of metal sculptures with rows of mostly large pieces filling the space. At first look, you might imagine it’s an exhibit of several ...

Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories, art exhibition by Pritika Chowdhry, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Partition of India and Pakistan. Installation view of 'Broken Column' ...