WOMEN AND ART | Linda Nochlin, Maura Reilly, Arezoo Moseni and special guests | An Art Book Series Event

FREE - Auditorium doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Legendary feminist art historian Linda Nochlin and art curator Maura Reilly are joined by contemporary women artists for a discussion moderated by Arezoo Moseni about the positions of women artists and women in the art world today and how they have changed since the 1971 publication of Nochlin’s landmark essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”

The book Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader, edited by Maura Reilly, is the definitive anthology of Linda Nochlin’s writing about women in art, bringing together twenty-nine essential essays from throughout her career. It includes her landmark 1971 essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”—a dramatic feminist call-to-arms that called traditional art historical practices into question and led to a major revision of the discipline. In addition to Nochlin’s major thematic texts, the book includes monographic essays on major women artists, including Mary Cassatt, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, and Sophie Calle, two new essays written for this book, and a lengthy interview with Nochlin on the position of women artists today.

“Nochlin writes with a dazzling mix of erudition and candor. Her commitment to clarity, investigation and active thought makes her work so contemporary today.” – The New York Times Book Review

Copies of Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader (Thames & Hudson 2015) are available for purchase and signing at the end of event. 

Linda Nochlin is a highly celebrated feminist art historian. She is the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art Emerita at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. She has also taught at Yale University, the City University of New York, and Vassar College. Her major books include Courbet, Representing Women, and Women, Art and Power. As curator, she organized, with Ann Sutherland Harris, the landmark exhibit Women Artists: 1550-1950 (1976), Courbet Reconsidered (1988) with Sarah Faunce, and Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art (2007) with Maura Reilly.

Dr. Maura Reilly is the new chief curator of The National Academy Museum. She previously worked as founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum where she organized, among other exhibitions, the critically acclaimed Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art (2007), co-curated with Linda Nochlin. She has worked as a critic for Art in America and as a lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her major books include Richard Bell: Uz vs. Them, Ghada Amer, and Nayland Blake: Behavior . She has organized more than twenty-five exhibitions internationally.

Arezoo Moseni is an artist. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at major venues in the U.S. and abroad such as FIAC 2014, and it is held in numerous public and private collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotheque nationale de France, and Musee de La Photographie. She is the recipient of several fellowships and grants including the Carnegie Corporation of New York | New York Times award, Kentler International Work on Site grant, Yaddo Fellowship and Artists Space Independent Project grant. She received a BFA at Utah State University, a MA and MFA at the University of New Mexico, and a MLIS at Pratt Institute. She curates exhibitions and events at The New York Public Library where she has initiated several exhibition and program series featuring the work of emerging and renowned artists, authors, critics, designers and others.

In its seventh year the program series An Art Book, initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, is a celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. The events showcase book presentations and discussions by world renowned artists, critics, curators, gallerists, historians and writers.

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