WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution is an international survey of artworks featuring radical subject matter, experimental processes, and aesthetic activism from the women’s movement. This exhibition is one of the first major retrospectives of women’s artwork from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. It also includes performance documents, interdisciplinary projects, and journals that reflect the many different political responses that gender discrimination provoked in the seventies. Since that decade, we have come to call this social revolution “feminism.” And like the social movement itself, this extensive collection of “early feminist art” reflects the complex set of issues and identities, alliances and factions, as well as the critique of inclusion and exclusion that continues to haunt this public inquiry and debate. What the women’s movement asked the public to question are collective ideas about the social conditions and conditionings of “women” that create and maintain their minority status in contemporary societies. “Feminism at-large” is thus a contested and complex grouping of ideologies and activism. With its signature proclamation, “the personal is political,” the women’s movement asked us to acknowledge the complexities of our lives with a critical rigor that blurred the boundaries between private and public life. Although this...