Feminist History of Art
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The government commissioned Clare Wade KC to review sentencing in domestic homicide casesMurder of Clare WoodThe DVDS scheme, known as "Clare’s Law”, was implementedSusannah Jane Lamplugh is murderedBrock Turner rapes student on Stanford campusClaudia Elizabeth Lawrence goes missingSteven van de Velde
convicted of raping a 12 year old girl takes part in OlympicsNicole Jacobs was appointed as the first Domestic Abuse CommissionerThe Women's March takes place the day after the inauguration of
Donald Trump as US president.Malala Yousafzai awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace PrizeChristine Blasey Ford is sworn in before testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.Emily Davison runs out in front of the king's horse at Epsom Derby.The National Health Service (NHS) is launchedMoya Bailey coins the term ‘misogynoir’ 2010“the personal is political”, which became popularised by the 1969 essay by feminist Carol Hanisch.MP Jo Cox is murderedSarah Everard was kidnapped and murdered in South London.Murder of Sabina Nessa, LondonI May Destroy You (2020), Michaela Coel first airs in UKThe Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) is released in the USThe Vow (2020) (NXIVM) is released in the UKJeffrey Epstein is arrested in New YorkGhislaine Maxwell is arrestedIn 1936, 156 MPs voted for equal pay whilst 148 MPs voted against.Luis Rubiales non consensually kisses Jenni Hermoso at Women's World Cup final (Australia).Madonna kisses Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the MTV Video Music Awards.Boxer Imane Khelif files lawsuit over cyberbullying during OlympicsNews reports Lewinsky and Clinton scandalDiana, Princess of Wales killed in Paris.Monica Lewinsky appears before the grand jury to begin her testimonyAnita Hill testifies to Supreme CourtWomen In Revolt (1971) directed by Andy WarholBarbie (2023) directed by Greta Gerwig.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, is publishedMargaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, is publishedMargaret Atwood, The Testament (sequel to The Handmaid's Tale) is publishedThe Handmaid's Tale series first airs in the UK.‘Ask for ANI’ codeword scheme rolled out.The first 16 days of action takes placethe UN Secretary-General launched UNITE by 2030 to End Violence against WomenAndrew Tate is arrestedThe first Reclaim the Night protests took place in LeedsFirst issue of Playboy magazine is publishedThe Kitchen Debate takes place in MoscowKimberlé Crenshaw coins "intersectionality"Rebecca Solnit coins "privelobliviousness"The Equality Act 2010, which superseded and consolidated previous discrimination law in the UK.The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 was passed.The first (known) Jack the Ripper murder (Polly Nichols)Harvey Weinstein is arrested in NY"Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal" interview airsOperation Yewtree commences into Jimmy Saville's child sex abuse.Mary Seacole is voted the Greatest Black Briton.The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria9/11The Berlin Wall falls'The 81 women killed in 28 weeks' articleHettie Judah, Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood. Thames & Hudson. 2024.Betty Freidan’s The Feminine MystiqueSontag, Susan. On Photography. Penguin, London, 2008.Bates, Laura. Everyday Sexism. Simon & Schuster UK. 2015.Bennett, Jill. Empathic vision: affect, trauma, and contemporary art. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, 2005.Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.Simone de Beavoir, The Second Sex, 1949.Katy Hessel, The Story of Art without Men. Hutchinson Heinemann, 2022.Bourke, Joanna. Rape: a history from 1860 to the present day. Virago, London, 2007.Buchwald, Emilie, Pamela R. Fletcher, and Martha Roth. Transforming a rape culture. Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 2005.Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 2006.Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Screen 16.3 (1975): 6-18.Nead, Lynda. The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality, Routledge, New York; London, 1992.Linda Nochlin in 1971 published a groundbreaking essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?Pennington, Louise. Everyday Victim Blaming: Challenging Media Portrayals of Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse. EVB Press. 2015.Solnit, Rebecca. Men explain things to me and other essays. Granta, London, 2014.Warr, Tracey, and Amelia Jones. The Artist's Body. Phaidon, London, 2000.Rozsika Parker, The Subversive Stitch, 1984Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth. Vintage Classics, London, 2015.Audre Lorde’s 1984 essay “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House,”Juliet Mitchell Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1974)Juliet Mitchell Woman’s Estate (1971)Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director for "The Hurt Locker”Offences Against The Person Act Amendment Bill Volume 224: debated on Monday 14 June 1875The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 raises the age of consent to 16The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is founded"Ladies of Langham Place" is foundedBarbara Bodichon co-founded with Bessie Rayner Parkes, the English Woman’s JournalBarbara Bodichon publishes the Brief Summary of the Laws of England Concerning Women.Offences Against the Person Act 1861Married Women's Property Act 1870Married Women's Property Act 1882Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885Sexual Offences Act 1956Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1970Equal Pay Act 1970Sex Discrimination Act 1975Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976Protection from Harassment Act 1997Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003Sexual Offences Act 2003Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007Protection of Freedoms Act 2012Serious Crime Act 2015Modern Slavery Act 2015Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019Domestic Abuse Act 2021Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022The Aberfan disasterBrighton hotel bombing7/7 London bombingsAscot's first race called "Her Majesty's Plate" takes placeAscot ‘Ladies’ Day’ first termedBertha von Suttner became the first female to win the Nobel Peace Prize.Greta Thunberg begins her school climate strikesUnited Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) takes placeThe UK hosted the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26)May 1968 protests, FranceMSI Reproductive Choices, named Marie Stopes International is foundedMarie Stopes publishes Married Love (1918)BPAS is founded in 1968 in BirminghamBirth control campaigner Margaret Sanger flees to EnglandThe statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London is unveiledCriado Perez launched the campaign for a statue of a
suffragette in Parliament SquarePROCESSIONS (a mass participation artwork that took place in several British cities)Clare Wade KC commissioned to review sentencing in domestic homicide casesThe Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) model is developedThe MAPPA model is established50:50 Parliament is foundedThe Good Parliament report is publishedWACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution exhibition, Los AngelesWomen in Revolt! Tate Britain, London.NOW YOU SEE US: WOMEN ARTISTS IN BRITAIN 1520–1920, Tate Britain.Emily Mary Osborn, Nameless and Friendless, 1857.Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in spaceThe UN's Commission on the Status of Women is foundedThe United Nations declared 1975 International Women's Year.Greenham Common Women's Peace CampMarilyn Loden coined the phrase "glass ceiling" at a 1978 Women's Exposition.Sigmund Freud's writing on psychic impotence/ Madonna/Whore complexAlfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958)Pussy Riot stages performance at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Brooklyn MuseumElizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies, exhibition, Brooklyn MuseumSackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum is foundedMrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is publishedChina #MeToo journalist sentenced to five years in jail, supporters sayCamille Paglia, in Sex, Art and American Culture (1990).Civil Partnerships: queer and feminist curating conference at TateZoe Buckman, Every Curve, 2016The #MeToo Moment: Art Inspired by the ReckoningAndrea Dworkin, Dear Bill and Hillary articleShafilea Ahmed killed by her parentsThe Push: Murder on the Cliff airs on Channel 4National Day of Remembrance for Honour Based Violence begins in UKForced Marriage Protection Orders Increase by 20% in 2023UK Gov Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) formsAlison Phipps, Me, not you: The trouble with mainstream feminismLauren Elkin, Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist ArtAlyssa Milano's 'Me Too' tweet is sharedTarana Burke founds the Me Too movementBreonna Taylor is shot and killed by US Police officerA.I.R, the first not-for-profit, artist-directed gallery for women artists opens (US)Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch is publishedRedstockings formed in the USThe first Miss America pageantUnbelievable (TV Mini Series 2019)Anna Wintour takes over the UK edition of Vogue.During CNN interview, James Brown laughs at domestic abuse allegations.Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson in USOJ Trial for murder of Nicole Brown Simpson begins in US2024 Vienna terrorism plot causes Taylor Swift to cancel concertsChris Brown physically assaults then-girlfriend Rihanna.The Manchester Arena bombing during an Ariana Grande concert.Fatal night attack at a Taylor Swift-themed event at a dance school in SouthportBondi Junction stabbingsJill Dando is murderedDisappearance of Madeleine McCann, PortugalTrial of Lucy Letby beginsThe Sunday Graphic calls 15 year old Shirley "attractive" (Battersea Poltergeist)Bravo's The Real Housewives first airs in USFleabag first airs on BBCArlie Hochschild provided the first definition of "emotional labour"Diana E. H. Russell first implicitly defined the term "femicide"Tiger King (2020)Making A Murderer (2015) (season 1)Kyle Clifford murders Carol Hunt and her daughters Louise and HannahTop Boy domestic abuse storyline features coercive control of pregnant characterSex In The City first airs in the UKBig Brother first airs in UKLove Island first airs in UKVigil for Sarah Everard takes place with arrests and manhandling of crowd‘I am weary’: Jess Phillips reads MPs list of women killed by men for ninth yearJess Phillips reads MPs list of women killed by menThe term “sextortion” is coined by IAWJThe tampon tax was abolished in the UK1977 Nestlé boycottJoy Gardner arrested and died after Police brutalityMary Secole awarded Order of Merit.Naomi Campbell becomes the first black
model to cover French Vogue.The Empire Windrush arrives at
Tilbury Docks, Essex.The BBC's television service startsLady Astor becomes the first woman to take her seat in Parliament.Cyberfeminism is a term coined in 1994 by Sadie PlantRape cases held up by football policing - watchdog article.Operation Soteria is launched June of 2021.Operation Soteria year 1 report publishedWomen's Aid: Single sex services statementGalop’s statement on Women’s Aid’s position on the inclusion of trans women in single-sex servicesSara Ahmed terms ‘affective economies’"Wannabe" the debut single by Spice Girls is released"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" Single by Cyndi Lauper"Just a Girl", No Doubt"I’m Every Woman" by Chaka Khan“WAP” by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion“I Will Survive” by Gloria GaynorHenrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is first staged in Munich.Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is first staged in Copenhagen.Amelia Mary Earhart disappears over the Pacific OceanGertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English ChannelOdette (film) is released in the UKChild Q, 15, was strip-searched at her school while menstruating"Girls Night In" boycott of nightclubs in response to spiking epidemicThe Sun newspaper publishes their last "Page 3" female topless modelStella Rimington becomes the first female Director General of MI5Virago Press is foundedThe first Rape Crisis Centre (LRCC) opened in North London.The first edition of Spare Rib is published.Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEALDW) is signedZoffany, The Academicians of the Royal Academy, 1771-1772,Burlington Arcade opens (London)The first (American) Bat Mitzvah takes placeYoko Ono, Cut Piece (1964)Yoko Ono: One Woman Show 1960–1971 exhibition at MoMAJean-François Lyotard is credited with being the first to use the term "postmodern"Beyonce headlines CoachellaFacebook is launchedFacebook is launchedThe first Word version, Word 1.0, is releasedSouthall Black Sisters is establishedEnglish Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) is foundedPentameter 2 is launched to tackle human traffickingManaged Approach (‘MA’) to on-street sex working in Leeds.Margaret Colquhoun's 'Protection of Prostitute's Bill is passedThe Street Offences Act 1959Blake Lively receives criticism from DA survivors/victims over film 'It Ends With Us'The Home Affairs Committee publishes an interim report on prostitution (sex work)Kaveh Golestan, Untitled, Prostitute Series, 1975–7Jenny Scholten and Nicki Blaze (2000) coin the term ‘digital cleavage’Fawziyah Javed and her unborn child are murdered by her husbandPaul and Diana Lamplugh establish the Suzy Lamplugh TrustSuzy Lamplugh Trust established the National Stalking HelplineStalking Protection Bill (2019)Marina Abramović exhibition at Royal Academy, London.Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present, 2010. MOMAMarina Abramović, Rhythm 0, 1974Fairtrade Foundation establishedLizzie Borden is acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother (US).Amelia Dyer "The Reading Baby Farmer" hangs for her crimesPersepolis (2007) is released in the UKBlack British Artists and Political Activism: 'She is not Bullet Proof'
Marlene Smith in conversation with Alice CorreiaSleeping with the Enemy, directed by Joseph RubenThe Color Purple (1985), directed by Steven Spielberg is released in the UKR Kelly convicted of child pornography and sexual assault.Womanhouse Exhibition (US) opens in LAJudy Chicago, The Dinner Party (1974-79)Barbie officially debutesLouise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999Rebecca Horn, Finger Gloves, 1972.Angelica Kauffman, Self Portrait c.1770-5.Berthe Morisot, In the Dining Room, 1875.Guerrilla Girls. Do Women Have to be naked to get into the Met? 1989.Sarah Lucas, Self-portrait with Fried Eggs, 1996.'My Bed', Tracey Emin, 1998Tracey Emin, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, 1995Marisa Carnesky, Jewess Tattooess, 2000.Sophie Calle, The Hotel, Room 47, 1981.Hannah Wilke, Marxism and Art: Beware of Fascist Feminism, 1977Marlene Dumas, Fingers, 1999.Jeff Koons, Made in Heaven, 1989.Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Rape Scene), 1973.Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #17, 1978.Sarah Lucas, Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, 1992.Jenny Holzer, Truisms, 1984Nan Goldin, Nan one month after being battered 1984Barbara Kruger Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989Documenting a Feminist Past: Art World Critique exhibition at MOMACarrie Mae Weems, Untitled (woman and daughter with makeup), 1990.Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (woman and daughter with makeup), 1990. (copy)Martha Rosler, Makeup/Hands Up from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home
c. 1967-72VALIE EXPORT, Peter Hassmann Action Pants: Genital Panic, 1969Wangechi Mutu, Yo Mama, 2003Senga Nengudi, R.S.V.P. I, 1977/2003Lea Lublin, Interrogations sur la Femme (Interrogations about Woman), 1978.Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1940.Eva Hesse, Addendum, 1967.Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993Margaret F. Harrison, Homeworkers, 1977.Georgia O’Keefe, Black Iris, 1921.Kiki Smith, Reclining Nude, 2005A Woman Under the Influence (1974) Directed by John CassavetesThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) are est.George Orwell's 1984 is publishedCuban Missile Crisis.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists (2014) publishedChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists (2014) TED TALKChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The danger of a single story (2009) TED TALK1995 article surfaces- Boris Johnson said children of single mothers were 'ill-raised, ignorant,
aggressive and illegitimate' in newly unearthed columnBoris Johnson insults Muslim Women as he writes burka 'letter box' articleThe Vagina Museum, London, opensElizabeth Butler, The Roll Call, 1874Annie Louisa Swynnerton, Mater Triumphalis 1892Dame Ethel Walker, Decoration: The Excursion of Nausicaa, 1920.An 1827 edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language gives definition of the term ‘domestic’Charles West Cope, Life Well Spent (exhibited as half of the diptych Two Mothers) 1862.George Elgar Hicks, Woman’s Mission (triptych), 1862–3.An 1862 article in the Happy Home made clear, it was the Bible that was the ‘great home-maker’.John Millais, Ophelia, 1851–2.Frank Bramley, A Hopeless Dawn, 1888.The NUWSS was formed.Women's Freedom LeagueSociety for Promoting the Employment of WomenMary Ann Cotton (convicted murderer) is executedHarris's List of Covent Garden LadiesThe rake carouses in a tavern full of prostitutes. Engraving by Thomas Bowles, 1735.Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber, published in 1979.Allen Jones, Chair, 1969A Story of South Asian Art
Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle exhibition at Royal Academy, London“The Milk of Dreams" (Venice, 23 April - 27 November 2022).What Makes Contemporary Photography Feminist and Queer? MOMARadical Thinkers: The Art, Sex and Politics of Feminism | Tate TalksThe Women’s strike for equality march in New York (NOW).George Orwell, Animal Farm is published.TfL's "Baby on Board" badge initiative launchedCyber-flashing is criminalisedThe Childcare Act 2016Civil Partnership Act 2004Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (OWAAD) formsDorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936Lord Lucan murders Sandra Rivett thinking it was his wifeThe Great DepressionVictoria Siddall becomes National Portrait Gallery’s first female directorFranki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works exhibition at Baltic, Gateshead.The Catalonia OffensiveThe Russian Revolution of 1917Treaty of VersaillesThe attack on Pearl HarborApollo 11Lynette White is murdered on Valentine's Day in 1988, Cardiff.10-year-old Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were murdered.Amanda Jane "Milly" Dowler is murderedFred and Rose West are arrested on suspicion of murdering their daughterCrimewatch UK first airsLockerbie bombingIntroduction of frozen food to the UKDelroy Grant aka the Night Stalker(Operation Minstead) is found guilty, London.Sarah Payne, an 8-year-old school girl, was abducted and murderedJohn Worboys (The Black Cab Rapist) is convicted of crimesPeter William Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper" arrestedI'll Be Gone in the Dark (Documentary)Joseph James DeAngelo/ EAR is arrestedRachel Jane Nickell was murdered on Wimbledon CommonIan Brady is convicted of multiple murdersVirginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925) is publishedVirginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) is publishedVirginia Woolf, Orlando (1928) is publishedVirginia Woolf, essay "A Sketch of the Past"Virginia Woolf dies by suicide.Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1963.Sylvia Plath, "Parliament Hill Fields"The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979).Corregidora by Gayl Jones (1975)A 17-year-old boy has been found guilty of murdering Holly Newton, 15.Committee report on 'Partygate' publishedthe House of Commons passed a motion to investigate 'partygate'Ruth Asawa, Untitled (S.068, Hanging, Single Lobe, with a Suspended Interior Sphere), c. 1952.Ruth Asawa: Through Line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Exhibition)Zoe Buckman, BLOODWORK, 2022Zoe Buckman, Heavy Rag, 2019Alexandra Exter (My Fan is Half a Circle) (1994) by Miriam SchapiroSarah Lucas, Pauline Bunny, 1997Louise Bourgeois, 10 am is When You Come to Me (2006)Lee Krasner, Seated Nude, 1940Lee Krasner, Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings, 1967Eva Hesse, Expanded Expansion, 1969Wife Swap first airs on Channel 4Azizah Y. Al-Hibri "Why is it oppressive to wear a head scarf but liberating to wear a miniskirt?”United Nations (1993) Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women.United Nations (1954) Convention on the Political Rights of WomenCO-MADRES. Founded in 1977Andrea Dworkin, 'Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality' (1985)Lynne Segal, 'Only the Literal: The Contradictions of Anti-Pornography Feminism' (1998)Sontag, Susan. (2004). Regarding the pain of others.Said, E, ORIENTALISM, 1977Don't Touch My Hair by Emma DabiriThe Staircase documentary airs on NetflixChannel 4 show Is Painting Dead? (1997) Featuring Tracey EminBenjamin Walter, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1935Television program, Ways of Seeing (1972), John BergerRoland Barthes, Camera Lucida, 1980The Story of Art by Eh Gombrich, 1950Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, et al., Art Since 1900, 2004.Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, 1971The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century by Hal Foster 1996Art and Culture: Critical Essays
by Clement Greenberg, 1961Art as Experience (1934) is John Dewey's major writing on aesthetics.Installation Art by Claire Bishop, 2005.The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson, 2011The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths by Rosalind E. KraussRelational Aesthetics by Nicolas Bourriaud , 1998Lacan, Mirror Stage theory first introduced.Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937.On Photography, by Susan Sontag, 1973The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques RanciereMichel Foucault, Discipline and Punish 1975Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, 1966Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, F Jameson, 1991There Are No Visual Media - W. J.T. Mitchell, 2005“It’s never occurred to you, I suppose, that they could have been created by a cave-
woman?” Cartoon by Leslie Starke, New Yorker, 23 July 1973.Pablo Picasso, Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907Monica Sjoo, God giving birth, 1969Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-1886Gillian Wearing, Signs that say what you want them to say and
not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (1992–1993)Gillian Wearing wins the Turner PrizeRachel Whiteread wins the Turner PrizeHelen Marten wins the Turner PrizeLubaina Himid wins the Turner PrizeVeronica Ryan wins the Turner PrizeTAI SHANI wins the Turner PrizeHelen Cammock wins the Turner PrizeElizabeth Price wins the Turner PrizeTomma Abts wins the Turner PrizeA Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See
By Tina M. CamptAnni Albers Black White Yellow 1926, re-woven 1965ANNI ALBERS exhibition at Tate Modern, LondonAnnie Albers joins the Bauhaus by the architect Walter Gropius in Weimar.Fascist leader Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy"Black Tuesday"Howard Carter opens the innermost shrine of King Tutankhamun's tomb near Luxor, Egypt, 1922.The first animated short film by Walt Disney is released in 1928George Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue and first performedThe Beatle's first (original) song released in the UKJoseph Baker is in Paris for the opening of
La Revue Nègre at Théâtre des Champs-ÉlyséesÉdith Piaf's Non, je ne regrette rien is releasedÉdith Piaf's "Hymne à l'amour" (1949)Porgy and Bess by American composer George Gershwin is first performedFrida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939.Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Nightsea Crossing, 1982.Duncan, Carol. Civilizing rituals: inside public art museums.Francesca Woodman, Self deceit, 1978Damien Hirst, Mother and Child (Divided), 1993.Edward Hopper, Compartment C. 1938Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” (1919)Edward Hopper, Automat, 1927.Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1927)Judith Butler, Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will (1935)Leni Riefenstahl, Olympia (1938)Susan Griffin, “Rape: The All-American Crime” Ramparts magazine. 1971.Audrey Chan and Elana Mann performed a piece titled Myths of RapeLeslie Labowitz-Starus' performance titled Myths of Rape, 1977.Emma Sulkowicz, Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)Helen Chadwick, In the Kitchen (Stove), 1977Miss World Protest, Royal Albert Hall.Bhajan Hunjan and Chila Kumari Singh Burman opened Four Indian Women Artists.Women for Life on Earth marchThe 1965 Race Relations ActRozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock published Framing FeminismOld Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology by Griselda Pollock and Rozsika Parkerlan Kaprow, Yard, 1961Elles: Women Artists from the Centre PompidouSuzanne Valadon, La chambre bleue, 1923Harmony Hammond, Floorpiece VI, 1973Paula Rego, The Family (1988)Band Aid forms releasing the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?"Live Aid concert, London and USA.Ian Fleming publishes his first Bond novel, Casino RoyaleNormandy landings (D Day)Atomic bombing of HiroshimaAtomic bombing of NagasakiLee Miller, Couple running veiled Eiffel Tower, 1944.Lee Miller, Fire Masks, 1941Dorothea Tanning, Voltage, 1942.Barbara Hepworth, Group II (People Waiting) (1952)Barbara Hepworth Dies in Fire at Cornwall StudioPeggy Guggenheim photographed by Man Ray, Paris, ca. 1925Peggy Guggenheim opened her museum-gallery Art of This Century in ManhattanPeggy Guggenheim exhibited her collection for the first time at the 1948 Venice Biennale,Peggy Guggenheim passes awayTruman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's novella is publishedTruman Capote's Answered Prayers is published posthumously.Announced the pill could be prescribed on the NHSJudith Kilshaw dubbed by the UK press as 'Britain's most hated woman'The Sun introduced the page 3 featureMax Clifford arrested for multiple sexual assaultsIRENE RICE PEREIRA, Reflection, 1943.Hector Guimard begins designing the entrances of the Paris Metro.Anne Truitt, Knight’s Heritage, 1963Ann Truitt, Remembered Sea, 1974.Agnes Martin, On a Clear Day, 1973Lenore Tawney, Clouds, 1965Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991Paula Rego, The Policeman's Daughter, 1987.Checkpoint CharlieVirginia Woolf: 'But this freedom is only a beginning--the room is your own,
but it is still bare', Professions for Women, National Society for Women's ServiceBonnie and Clyde shot dead by US PoliceJohn Dillinger shot dead by US PoliceF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby."Unemployed Women"
Letter to the Farnworth Labour Party on behalf of Margaret BondfieldThe Means Test in 1931Resignation of Anthony EdenAnti-Comintern Pact, Berlin.The Pact of SteelStalin diesLenin diesLindbergh Kidnapping (US)Assassination of John F. KennedyThe Geneva ConventionThe Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal exposed by The TimesOperation Linden was launched by the Independent Office for Police ConductEmin and Lucas open The Shop, LondonThe Last Death Sentence in the UKThe Children Act 1908Baby P is murderedQueen of Hearts (Lili), Paris by Gerda Wegener, 1928Lily, Hot Summer by Gerda Wegener, 1924John Christie is hung for his crimesThe 1990 Strangeways Prison riotC. S. Lewis published The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.Mary Quant opened her first shop, ‘Bazaar’ in Chelsea, London.Elvis Presley has his first hit in the UK, Heartbreak Hotel.Michael Bond published A Bear Called Paddington.Suez CrisisBritain’s first nuclear power station at Windscale.The Festival of Britain in 1951 exhibition opensThe Millennium Bridge opens designed by Norman FosterThe Nokia 3310 is released in the UKNational Service in the UK endsHans Christian Andersen's first installment is published (in The Princess and the Pea)Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is published1913 Cat and Mouse ActWSPU poster 1914Mona Hatoum, Hot Spot III 2009Mona Hatoum, Grater Divide 2002Mona Hatoum, So Much I Want to Say, 1983Rachel Whiteread, EMBANKMENT, Turbine Hall.Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth, Turbine Hall.Darkytown Rebellion (2001) by Kara WalkerWomen Artists: 1550–1950 at the Brooklyn Museum, New YorkKäthe Kollwitz, The Mothers, 1921–2Käthe Kollwitz, The Sacrifice, 1922Liubov Popova, Painterly Architectonic, 1917Käthe Kollwitz, The Prisoners, sheet 7 of the cycle 'Peasants War', 1908Sonia Delaunay, Triptych, 1963Sonia Delaunay, Electric Prisms, 1914.Réalités nouvelles exhibiting society foundedThe Government of India Act 1919Amritsar Massacre in 1919The Balfour DeclarationAdolf Hitler appointed Germany's new chancellor.The Labour Party is foundedPresident Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948.
Aka the Marshall PlanThe Third Man, directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene.The War of the Worlds by English author H. G. Wells is aired (US)Paulo Freire in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970)Gramsci's writing on 'hegemony'Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott (1832)Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863.Enfranchisement of Women by Harriet Taylor Mill (1852) is published.Charlotte Brontë, 'Jane Eyre' is publishedMichele Gordigiani, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1858.A New Court of Queen's Bench, caricature by George CruikshankEmily Mary Osborn, Home Thoughts, 1856.Charles Henry Harrod opens first shop in East End.Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit first published.A. A. Milne publishes first collection of stories, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926).Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, is published in the UKAgatha Christie's The Mousetrap, premieres in the West End.Enfield poltergeistDr Naomi Dancy is murdered at her home in Richmond.The 1936 Summer Olympics, BerlinDavid Blaine, "ABOVE THE BELOW" LondonLondon Eye opensCamille Silvy, Aina (Sarah Forbes Bonetta (later Davies)) 15 September 1862.Selfridges flagship store opensDiana, Princess of Wales, talks with Wayne TaylorFamous photograph of Princess Diana of Wales visiting AIDS patients at a hospital in London."Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God" [Doc]Mother Teresa passes awayMother Teresa receives 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.Good Friday Agreement (1998)Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Relax" was released in October 1983Comic Relief is foundedThe first British Grand PrixJohn le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.National Theatre Company founded and Laurence Olivier announced as Director.EastEnders first airs on BBCHarper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937Harold "Kim" Philby a Secret Intelligence Service, begins to spy for the Soviet UnionGraham Greene's Brighton Rock (1938)Brighton Rock, 1948 [Film]Billie Jean King defeat Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes,”Billie Jean and Karen Hantze Susman become youngest to win the Wimbledon women’s doubles title.The Mau Mau Uprising is officially over.Lonnie Donegan's "My Old Man's a Dustman" No. 1 in the UK charts.The Profumo AffairThe Ford StrikeBarbara Castle became the first and only woman to be appointed First Secretary of State (US)The Daily Express named 16-year-old Twiggy ‘The Face of 1966’Jill Posener’s 1987 photo series “A Dirty Girls Guide to London”British punk emerged in 1976Hannah O'Shea, ‘A Visual Time Span’ (A Visual Diary) 1975Muriel McKay is kidnapped (The Wimbledon Kidnap)The Great Train Robbery takes placeAlexander Valterovich Litvinenko is poisonedThe Salisbury PoisoningsJeffrey Archer's (MP) trial 1987Jeffrey Archer's (MP) trial 2000News of the World's phone hacking scandal brokeNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is imprisoned in Iran.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is freedLolita by Vladimir Nabokov is published.Stanley Kubrick, Lolita (1962 film)Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork OrangeAna Mendieta, Silueta series, 1974Ana Mendieta, Body Tracks, 1974Ana Mendieta, Tallus Mater (Madre Tallo/Stem Mother), 1982Ana Mendieta, Bacayu (Esculturas Rupestres) [Light of Day (Rupestrian Sculptures)], 1981Ana Mendieta is killedHelen Molesworth is fired as chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los AngelesMaria Balshaw becomes Director of Tate, the first woman to hold the position.WikiLeaks founded by Julian Assange.Julian Assange fled to the UK and has a warrant for arrest.Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather (1972)Dr. Strangelove (1963)Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)John And Yoko 'Bed-in' press conferenceJohn Lennon, "Imagine" [song]ICTY convicts General Stanislav GalićEmma Caldwell is murderedFlorence Bravo's husband Charles is murderedMan Ray, Gift, 1921Piet Mondrian, Lozenge, 1921Cecilia Beaux, Sita and Sarita, 1921Florine Stettheimer, Portrait Of My Sister, Ettie Stettheimer
1923Otto Dix, Assault Troops Advance under Gas (Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor) 1924Otto Dix, Portrait of the Jeweller Karl Krall, 1923.Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893,Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917Aleksandr Rodchenko, About This. To Her and to Me, 1923Wassily Kandinsky, Composition 8, 1923Man Ray, Ingres's Violin, 1924Suzanne Valadon, Joy of Life, 1911ROMAINE BROOKS, The Path, 1911Tate Trustees announced their intention to create a separate galleryTate Modern opensZanele Muholi Exhibition at Tate ModernZanele Muholi Qiniso, The Sails, Durban 2019The Chernobyl disasterDissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)The Euro is launchedParis Climate Agreement (2015) signedCapitol Riots (US)The Dreyfus affair (France)Sarah Maple, The Less I Know, 2019.Sarah Mapple, Passport, 2007.Elaine de Kooning, The Bull, 1959.Laura Aguilar, Nature Self-Portrait #10, 1996.The Rivolta Femminile form in ItalyIlya Kabakov, Labyrinth (My Mother’s Album) (1990)Keith Edgier, Beverly Edgier 1967 (1998).Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document. Documentation III, 1975BLACK VENUS at Somerset HouseACTS OF RESISTANCE: PHOTOGRAPHY, FEMINISMS AND THE ART OF PROTESTTourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, Happy Birthday Marsha!, 2018.Hoda Afshar, Untitled #14 from the In Turn series, 2023.the U.S. overruled Roe v. Wade.Mahsa Amini dies in police custody (Iran) caused by Police brutalityAndré Breton, Manifeste du surréalismeYvan Goll, Surréalisme, Manifeste du surréalisme, cover by Robert DelaunayAndré Breton published the Second manifeste du surréalismeVan Gogh had cuts his earThe full-scale Russian invasion of UkraineThe Chinese ‘open door’ economic reforms beginsGyörgy Konrád's 'Antipolitics’Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, 1945.Judges to hear Semenya case before final rulingAthlete Caster Semenya is forced to undergo sex testing.Confessions of a bad feminist, Roxanne Gay TED TALK.Saudi Arabia’s law changes to allow women to drive.Lee Bontecou, 'Untitled', 1959-60Cady Noland, 'Bluewald', 1989Natalia Goncharova, 'Les Fleurs', 1912.Barbara Hepworth, The Family of Man: Ancestor II, bronze, 1974.Jenny Saville, ‘Propped’, 1992.Tamara de Lempicka, 'Portrait of Marjorie Ferry, oil on canvas, 1932.Joan Mitchell, Untitled, Painted circa 1959.Leonora Carrington painting auctioned for £22.5m in record for UK-born female artistBlack American women artists represent just 0.1% of selslHackney Flashers is foundedHackney Flashers, Who’s Holding the Baby? 1978Hackney Flashers, Women and Work 1975Linder, Untitled (Darmart express), 1976Ewa Partum, Active Poetry, 1971.Marie Yates, The Only Woman, 1984Claudia Andujar, Horizontal 2, 1981–3.The Kitchen DebateMarsha P. Johnson is found dead (suspected murder)G. E. M. Anscombe, Intention, 1957.Oxford University award honorary degree to Harry S. Truman for ending WW2Stonewall RiotArte Povera is coinedMagdalena Abakanowicz's first solo exhibition in WarsawMagdalena Abakanowicz, 4 Seated Figures, 2002Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pregnant, c. 1970-80.Magdalena Abakanowicz, Yellow Abakan, 1967–1968Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pregnant, 1981-82Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt). Drawing without Paper 85/19. 1985.Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt). Stream no. 7. 1971. Iron and aluminum.Ursula Kuczynski (Ruth Werner) "Sonjas Rapport" is publishedDelaine Le Bas, Detail from Meet Your Neighbours – (Engrained) Woven Into The Fabric Of Our Society, 2005,Delaine Le Bas, The House of Le Bas, 2023Delaine Le Bas, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 2013.Rana Begum, No. 950 Net, 2019.Rana Begum, No. 814, 2018.Rana Begum, No. 1104 Catching Colour, 2022Peggy Guggenheim settles in VeniceRMS Titanic sinksGuggenheim opened a gallery (Guggenheim Jeune) for modern art in LondonOtobong Nkanga, In Pursuit of Bling: The Transformation, 2014.Leonora Carrington, Transference 1963Leonora Carrington, Do You Know My Aunt Eliza?, 1941Helen Lundeberg, Plant and Animal Analogies, 1933–34.Joyce Mansour, Cris (1953) is is published
(poetry)Francesca Woodman passes awayFrancesca Woodman,
Space², Providence, Rhode Island (1976)Francesca Woodman
Untitled, from Angel Series, Rome, Italy (1977)Otobong Nkanga, Silent Force, Red Caress
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by the Scandinavian Societies of Greater New York.Florence Mills in 'Dover Street to Dixie' at the London Pavilion by Bassano 1923Joan Semmel, Secret Spaces, 1976Abortion Act 1967Ted Bundy's violence beginsSophie Taeuber-Arp, Composition of Circles and Semicircles, 1935Eva Hesse, Study for Sculpture, 1967Helen Frankenthaler, Spiritualist, 1973Agnes Martin, Friendship, 1963Marisa Merz, Untitled, 1966Tania Bruguera, Tatlin’s Whisper #5, 2008Tania Bruguera: Untitled (Kassel, 2002)Periodi
WW2WW1Cold WarThe Iraq WarFirst UK National COVID 19 LockdownSecond UK National COVID 19 LockdownThird UK National COVID 19 LockdownThe Second Boer WarThe Crimean WarWilliam Lamb (Viscount Melbourne)Robert PeelJohn Russell (Lord John Russell)Edward Smith-Stanley (Earl of Derby)George Hamilton-Gordon (Earl of Aberdeen)Henry John Temple (Viscount Palmerston)Edward Smith-Stanley (Earl of Derby)Henry John Temple (Viscount Palmerston)John Russell (Earl Russell)Edward Smith-Stanley (Earl of Derby)Benjamin DisraeliWilliam Ewart GladstoneBenjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)William Ewart GladstoneRobert Gascoyne-Cecil (Marquess of Salisbury)William Ewart GladstoneRobert Gascoyne-Cecil (Marquess of Salisbury)William Ewart GladstoneArchibald Primrose (Earl of Rosebery)Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Marquess of Salisbury)Arthur BalfourHenry Campbell-BannermanH. H. AsquithDavid Lloyd GeorgeAndrew Bonar LawStanley BaldwinRamsay MacDonaldStanley BaldwinRamsay MacDonaldStanley BaldwinNeville ChamberlainWinston ChurchillClement AttleeWinston ChurchillAnthony EdenHarold MacmillanAlec Douglas-HomeHarold WilsonEdward HeathHarold WilsonJames CallaghanMargaret ThatcherJohn MajorTony BlairGordon BrownDavid CameronTheresa MayBoris JohnsonLiz TrussRishi SunakKeir StarmerRobert WalpoleSpencer Compton (Earl of Wilmington)Henry PelhamThomas Pelham-Holles (Duke of Newcastle)William Cavendish (Duke of Devonshire)Thomas Pelham-Holles (Duke of Newcastle)John Stuart (Earl of Bute)George GrenvilleCharles Watson-Wentworth (Marquess of Rockingham)William Pitt the Elder (Earl of Chatham)Augustus FitzRoy (Duke of Grafton)Frederick North (Lord North)Charles Watson-Wentworth (Marquess of Rockingham)William Petty (Earl of Shelburne)William Cavendish-Bentinck (Duke of Portland)William Pitt the YoungerHenry AddingtonWilliam Pitt the YoungerWilliam Grenville (Lord Grenville)William Cavendish-Bentinck (Duke of Portland)Spencer PercevalRobert Jenkinson (Earl of Liverpool)George CanningFrederick John Robinson (Viscount Goderich)Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington)Charles Grey (Earl Grey)William Lamb (Viscount Melbourne)Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington)Robert PeelPostmodernismRococoNeoclassicismRomanticismRealismImpressionismPost-ImpressionismFauvismExpressionismCubismFuturismSurrealismAbstract ExpressionismPop ArtMinimalismConceptual ArtNeo-ExpressionismBauhausDadaThe Irish War of IndependenceVladimir LeninMiner's StrikeOrphismThe TroublesVietnam WarCambodian Civil WarBosnian War/ GenocideNuremberg trialsUS: Donald TrumpThe Arab SpringFirst WaveSecond WaveThird WaveFifth WaveFourth Wave
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