Jordan Troeller’s book about the Bay Area sculptor and her artist-mother community shows us how reciprocity and caretaking become the work itself, not just the subject or the conditions.
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Hettie Judah Confronts the Unwritten History of Artist-Mothers
Though more interested in taxonomy than analysis, the critic’s new book is most exhilarating when it maps a timeline of childrearing’s influence on artists.
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The Unnatural Link Between Mothering and Technological Surveillance
Supervision provided me, as a curator/new mom, an entry point into how the labor that is mothering intersects with technology and surveillance.
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Kombucha as Metaphor for Parenthood
Anna Ting Möller’s search for their birth mother led them to cultivate kombucha to confront ambivalent feelings on motherhood.
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What Freezing My Eggs Meant to Me as an Artist
I re-evaluated all of the choices I had made in my life, including the decision to become an artist.
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Lynne Tillman Explores How Her Mother Was Transformed by Aging and Illness
Doubt and uncertainty mark her account of family inheritance, photographic portraiture, and eldercare.
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After Pregnancy, an Artist’s Work Changes Course
“You turn inward because you’re focused on this new life that’s housed inside of you,” said Kimia Ferdowsi Kline.
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The Very Real “Motherhood Penalty” in the Art World
Cultural institutions are constantly draining their talent pool and dismissing this retention problem as a woman’s issue, when it is a structural failure.
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The Central, Yet Invisible, Labor of Motherhood in Art
Curators, scholars, artists, and designers reflect on the labor and experience of motherhood in the new essay collection Inappropriate Bodies.
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Painting the Extreme Intimacy Between a Mother and Her Infant Child
In Madeline Donahue’s first solo exhibition, Attachments, the relationship between a mother and child threatens to subsume each individual into one being.
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A Disturbing Reckoning With China’s One-Child Policy
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s new documentary One Child Nation unpacks the history and brutal effects of a policy that dominated a population.
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Dorothea Lasky’s Provocative Poems about Motherhood
The poems in Milk combine snarky sense of humor with an edge of semi-bitter self-consciousness.