Claiming Space is a small, carefully curated exhibition with a big heart and ambitious agenda. It makes a compelling argument that feminist artists working in the late sixties into the early eighties had an enormous role in defining and expanding what constitutes feminist culture, and that any history of the period—social, political, cultural, or art historical—is woefully incomplete if these artists are not fully integrated into these stories. The history of this period and the art of the nineties simply does not make sense otherwise. There are nineteen artists represented in the exhibition, including major works by Judith Bernstein, Judy Chicago, Betsy Damon, Mary Beth Edelson, Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, Yolanda Lopez, Howardina Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, May Stevens, and Hannah Wilke. Sandra Orgel Crooker, Nancy Fried, Valerie Jaudon, Jane Kaufman, Joyce Kozloff, and Cynthia Mailman round out the roster of artists represented in Claiming Space. Viewers are invited to think about the “space” curators Norma Broude and Mary Garrard are claiming for feminism in several layered ways: first, a place at the table; then in the histories and in the ongoing discourse. The heroic scale of many of the objects in the exhibition is yet...