Feminist Festivities: The Sisterhood’s Art Reunion

It’s a tough job to cover two days of feminist art symposia, but somebody (not CultureGrrl) had to do it .
Holland Cotter, early in his dutiful account for today’s NY Times, makes this startling assertion:
Curators and critics have increasingly come to see that feminism has generated the most influential art impulses of the late 20th and early 21st century. There is almost no new work that has not in some way been shaped by it.
He supports this sweeping statement with one example: Matthew Barney.
The fact is that most of today’s artists whose works most resonate with me are women. Much of their work certainly owes something to their female-ness; their confident self-assertion as artists probably owes a debt to feminism (as does my combative blog-ism). But labeling it “feminist art,” or even “feminist-influenced” would be a stretch.
For those of you who missed it but want to hear some or all of it, the Museum of Modern Art will post audio and video of “The Feminist Future” here within two weeks.
For a good rundown of the various recent and upcoming feminist- (or female-) related art exhibitions and critiques, go to Phoebe Hoban’s piece in the February issue of ARTnews.