Articles

  • Our First Remote Book Launch

    The broadcast is supposed to start at 7:00, and at 7:01 author Barbara Linn Probst and I are in the virtual studio of a broadcasting software program neither of us are very familiar with, trying to get her sound turned on. “Disaster!” Barbara texts me in despair. We are both nervous. A few (very long) […]

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  • Online Community

    Pen + Brush is still working. We continue to advise our underserved and under-recognized community of artists and writers on how to continue their work. We continue to create exposure and network connections within the new expanded online communities that are now more relevant than ever. Our staff is also working to create new engaging online […]

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  • Introducing the Pen + Brush Blog

    Usually when I write to anonymous readers about Pen + Brush, it’s in the editorial note at the beginning of an issue of Pen + Brush In Print. In fact, I was expecting to be doing that now: to be writing to you – all of you, whoever you are – to introduce you to a […]

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  • A Disrupted Inheritance

    With the threat of statelessness looming, the artist kept true to form, and her citizenship status immediately became one of her materials, as in when she pinned images of her family to her chest with acupuncture needles, in a performance which she called “Recuérdame,” or “Remember Me,” performed at Pen + Brush.

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  • From the Archive: Brooklyn Rail ArTonic

    With shows like this, Pen + Brush positions itself as a unique space for observing the trajectory of feminist art over time…

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  • Hyperallergic essay on Women’s Work

    The familiar expression “women’s work” persists in our cultural lexicon, but five artists/activists present visions that reshape its definition in a massive and thoughtful exhibition.

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  • Ms. Q&A with curator Grace Aneiza Ali

    Women’s Work: Art & Activism in the 21st Century features the work of five women artist-activists whose roots span the globe. Each engage the current political moment via their artmaking.

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  • ART News Women’s Work Slideshow

    View some works from Women’s Work Art & Activism in the 21st Century at Pen + Brush, New York

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  • With a New Exhibit, Women’s Work Is in the Art Gallery

    In the Pen + Brush spirit of women’s involvement in activism, politics, and art, Ali reflected on the the 2017 Women’s March as a sampling of women’s work:

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  • Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

    The next exhibition in Pen + Brush’s 125th-anniversary year features a quintet of international artists whose studio practices and activist activities challenge, if not shatter, outdated conceptions of what qualifies as “women’s work.”

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