Brooklyn Museum Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection Closes March 31

Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection Closes March 31
“Taken as an ensemble, this powerful collection of artworks becomes a site of communion for overlooked histories, silenced voices, and marginalized artists” – Connor Goodwin, Blouin Artinfo
Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow), born 1981).
Alaxchiiaahush / Many War Achievements / Plenty Coups, 2014, from the series 1880 Crow Peace Delegation. Pigment print on paper, from digitally reproduced and artist-manipulated photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., TL2018.8.5a-b. © Wendy Red Star. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado, Brooklyn Museum.)
Closing on March 31, Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection presents major works, new acquisitions, and rediscoveries in the Museum’s collection through an intersectional feminist lens. Highlighting work created in response to crucial social and political moments from the last one hundred years, from World War I to the Civil Rights Movement and #MeToo, the exhibition foregrounds more than fifty artists who use their work to advocate for their communities, their beliefs, and their hopes for equality across race, class, and gender.