Women of the avant-garde

Know much about female avant-garde artists? If you don’t, you’re missing out and you should head straight over to Harriet, a blog published by the Poetry Foundation. They’re promoting a two-part podcast dedicated to these exciting, and underappreciated, artists—one of whom is Karen Finley, shown here in a portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

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Karen Finley. Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

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What’s the meaning of having what looks like cooking oil poured over your head? If you’re going to ask that, you might also ponder why the work of women artists—be they photographers, fine artists, filmmakers, musicians, even chefs—is not automatically considered as valid as that of as men. Some realities in life are just a mess.

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