Philosopher and conceptual artist Adrian Piper (b. 1948) has used her visual and performance art to explore her own multiracial and feminine identity, as well as more universal ideas about gender and race. Piper attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City in the late ‘60s before pursuing an academic career in philosophy. …
From April 2013
The Haunting Mystery Around Ana Mendieta’s Death and the Art She Left Behind
Ana Mendieta, only 36-years-old when she died falling out of a window from her 34th floor apartment in New York, was a unique voice in performance who left behind a short but incendiary career, as well as the haunting mystery of her death. She was one of the first artists of her generation to combine …
The Zen Work of Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono, inextricably linked with late husband John Lennon and The Beatles, has been an important experimental artist in her own right since the 1960s. Born in 1933 to a wealthy Tokyo family with banking and samurai lineage, Yoko Ono grew up studying Buddhism, Japanese aesthetics and classical music. In the 1960s she moved to …