Building towards something different
Itala Attieh finds Shurooq Amin's new exhibition We'll Build This City on Art and Love provocative and powerful, as it explores and challenges the position of women in Kuwait and the wider Middle East
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The History Girls
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I stood back and looked at the board. Over fifty names. After the first fifteen I'd started to worry, at twenty-five I was stressed and by the end frustrated beyond belief. Over fifty names.
A pinch of SALT
M. Lý-Eliot interviews the editors of feminist art zine SALT, finding out their backgrounds, interests and aspirations for their project
Have your food for thought with SALT
M. Lý-Eliot is delighted by SALT's issue with an anti-work theme, finding much to think about in its pages
An incomplete history of women and art
Annie Kevans' portraits of women artists show at the Fine Art Society is just a little too nice for Pamela Edwardes
The magic of Red Pig Flower
Mia Hull finds the art of Red Pig Flower exciting, engaging and well worth a visit
If pop was punk
Sophie Mayer follows up on her 2011 review of Carla Bozulich's Evangelista project with an appraisal of Bozulich's forthcoming album, Boy
To the riot, the survival and the fight
Swedish singer-songwriter Jenny Wilson has spoken of a longing to make music that "talks straight to the stomach". Marta Owczarek listens to her latest album and finds a sound that is decidedly more aggressive than her previous work
Space invaders
Ndéla Faye on how men's dominance of space - both physically and through street harassment and victim blaming - oppresses women
The joys of sex
At the British Museum's shunga exhibition, Sarah Jackson discovers that the fantasy world of Japanese erotic art has a more relatable sense of fun than modern pornography
Zen and the art of rubbish bin maintenance
Is this a clever twist on daily chores or is it class pornography? Britain's first solo exhibition of Mierle Laderman Ukeles' earlier work makes an uncertain impression on Abbi Davey
An end and a new beginning?
Jennifer Patterson considers what two exhibitions of works by female artists indicate about the art world for women today
An exhibition of one’s own
Quietly radical and joyfully frustrated, Lebanese abstract artist Saloua Raouda Choucair finally gains a new audience with her first major solo exhibition. Nikki Hall thinks it's about time too
Another view on Silver Action
Shannon Harvey offers a different perspective on Suzanne Lacy's artwork Silver Action, as one of the younger women who took part in the event
No interaction at Silver Action
Although Shoshana Devora looked forward to participating in Silver Action, an artwork involving the discussions of older feminists, she was disappointed by unexpected restrictions and lack of engagement
Full of Fire: new video from Swedish duo The Knife
"Who takes care of our stories?" Holly shares the first music video from The Knife in six years: a film by visual artist Marit Östberg, focused on images of queer bodies and sexualities and consisting of "a network of fates, fears, cravings, longings, losses, and promises"
