BROOKLYN MUSEUM | 2008
Brooklyn, NY— Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection was an exhibition of nearly fifty works focusing on recent acquisitions and major loans, including works by artists such as Kiki Smith, Tracey Emin, Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke, Kara Walker, Miriam Schapiro, Adrian Piper, Joyce Kozloff, Ana Mendieta, The Guerrilla Girls, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Nayland Blake, Lorna Simpson, Cindy Sherman, Ida Applebroog, Carrie Mae Weems, Tracey Moffatt, among others. The exhibition title referred to the idea of the “master’s house” from two perspectives: the museum as the historical domain of male artists and professed masters of art history, and the house as the supposed proper province of women. This exhibition was co-curated by Maura Reilly and Nicole Caruth.
