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12 Jun

Joan Ballard, pioneering Portland wrestler, discovered her true self

Joan Ballard, pioneering Portland wrestler, discovered her true self
It was a late afternoon in April when Joan Ballard received the invitation to revisit a world she’d left behind way back.The lifelong Portlander, 86, lives alone. Her parents and two siblings have died, and he or she never married. She showers love on Lulu, a small dog that barks at visitors.Ballard settled in a straightforward chair that Tuesday and held the ticket that, if she wished, would take her back to the wild lifestyle that when defined her. She dismissed the offer with a wave of her hand.“That,” she said, “is prior to now.”A past that involved throwing other women around a tattered canvas ring and crashing down on top of them. All to the hoots and cheers of...
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22 Sep

Five radical works by pioneering artist Carolee Schneemann

Five radical works by pioneering artist Carolee Schneemann
To have fun the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition and film screenings, we take a have a look at among the artist’s most shocking and haunting work Pioneering multidisciplinary artist and feministic icon Carolee Schneemann continues to encourage generations of artists. Known for her potent artworks exploring female sexuality and subjectivity, human suffering, objectification and rather more, Schneemann began within the Nineteen Fifties primarily as a painter before turning to performance art and photography as a rejection of what she perceived as this poisonous macho heroism of up to date painting.  Born in 1939, she got here of age at the peak of abstract expressionism – a movement described by art critic Marcia Brennan because the...
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