by Susan Weidman Schneider

Martha Rosler’s Greatest Garage Sale Ever

No Comments

Martha Rosler, the multimedia performance artist, has been staging garage sales in art-gallery settings since the 1970s. And if you have ever watched her brandishing a knife or a rolling pin in “Semiotics of the Kitchen,” her classic, gallery-worthy six-minute feminist video from 1975, you know that she makes brilliant art out of the commonplace.

Winter 2012-2013

Why did your therapist become a therapist? A teen fights the inner battle between outer beauty, her Jewish identity, and her nose. A Jewish mother on the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay policy.

A Jewish Mother on the Boy Scouts’ Anti-Gay Policy

by Heidi Gralla

“So I’d Definitely Recommend Rhinoplasty…”

by Sarah Beller

Analyze THIS

by Susan Schnur

Winter 2019-2020

DNA secrets, hidden identities • Breast cancer and Jewish women • Tillie Olsen: feminist foremother • At her ritual haircut, she knew she was a girl • The first lady of lox

Fall 2019

#MeToo stories • Jewish women and breast cancer: crisis, intimacy, recovery • Jennifer Weiner on “chick lit’s” power • Suddenly, period positivity • A feminist Jew’s tough search for holiness in community.

Summer 2019

Jewish women and addiction. 1960s & 70s feminism roars back, trendy again. Transforming Jewish life in small-town Maine. Choosing to be Jewish–thus feeling perpetually “the stranger.” Food writing by women that changes the entire culture. She redefines the meaning of Jewish art.

Spring 2019

“Unfaithful,” the theme of 3 prize-winning short stories • Israel’s little-known School for Peace and the woman who created it • The new questions those male policy-makers didn’t know to ask

Martha Rosler’s Greatest Garage Sale Ever

Continue reading this article…