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February 26, 2008
Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin, eds. Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art Exh. cat. New York: Brooklyn Museum and Merrell Publishers, 2007. 304 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $39.95 (087273157X)

Exhibition schedule: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, March 23–July 1, 2007; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September 19–December 9, 2007

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Shulamit Reinharz, ed. Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture Waltham, MA: Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, 2006. 125 pp.; 91 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780979809408)

Exhibition schedule: Kniznick Gallery, Women’s Studies Research Center; and Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, October 2–December 14, 2007; Mabel Douglass Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, January 15–July 31, 2008; Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, August 23–October 27, 2008; Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC, January 24–March 29, 2009; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, June 27–October 11, 2009

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.16

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Pilar Albarracín. Prohibido el cante (Forbidden Singing) (2000). Video, color, sound. 6 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

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As interventions within contemporary art’s ongoing male and Western hegemonies, two recent, groundbreaking shows of global women artists, Global Feminisms and Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture, were timely. After seeing Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum last spring, I was equally thrilled to see it remixed at the Davis Museum in the fall—thrilled because the show is needed, because it is exciting to discover new artistic responses to age-old problems,...