In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Digital Lab is revisiting the Sackler Center’s 2008 exh

In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Digital Lab is revisiting the Sackler Center’s 2008 exhibition Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, the first showcase of feminist art from the Museum’s permanent holdings. Inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, the exhibition featured nearly fifty works by artists who defy patriarchal oppression, especially in regard to the limited and limiting representations of women in Western art. The title “Burning Down the House” references the confrontation of two gendered domains: the museum, historically housing and codifying the works of white male artists, as well as the domestic home, traditionally regarded as the only proper domain for women to occupy.When the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art was established the year before in March 2007, the Brooklyn Museum pledged to support the visibility and viability of feminist art practice. By carving out exhibition space devoted to the exploration of on-going conversations between past and present that have been variously re-negotiated throughout the historical development of feminism in the arts, the Museum aims to promote social and critical museum practices that provide alternatives to exclusionary Western and male-centric discourses of art.You can find installation photos, press materials and more information on the works in Burning Down The House on the exhibition’s Digital Archive Record and interviews with artists in the exhibition here.Posted by Nora Gerien-Chen and Georgieanna Richer -- source link

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