by Susan Weidman Schneider

Martha Rosler’s Greatest Garage Sale Ever

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.

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