For three months in the spring of 2010, New York City's Museum of Modern Art hosted an event called The Artist is Present, during which performance artist Marina Abramovic sat silently in a chair for ...
In 1866, Gustave Courbet painted a provocative icon of modern art: The Origin of the World. Hung in Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the painting shows a woman's thighs, torso, part of one breast and her hairy ...
You’ve likely heard of the male gaze, the concept coined by British film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1973 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In her writing, she notes that the “male gaze ...