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Joyce Kozloff becomes the first public member of the feminist collective. Also: why is an AI company stamping its name on an art school?
Forty years ago, the Guerrilla Girls changed the museum landscape forever. Since then, the collective has fought against sexism and racism in the art world, while their identity has remained anonymous until now. Staff Writer Rhea Nayyar reports on artist Joyce Kozloff’s decision to announce her role as founder of Guerrilla Girl last week.
Also in the news, a MAGA-friendly artist’s sculpture of Thomas Jefferson is the latest addition to the Rose Garden, part of Trump’s plan to restructure the White House grounds. Further down the rabbit hole of technocracy, AI company Nvidia has stamped its CEO’s name on the next version of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, which will reopen as a satellite campus of Vanderbilt University.
Elsewhere in the Bay Area, a different vision of art and political engagement is blossoming in the work of Emory Douglas, former Secretary of Culture for the Black Panther Party. Critic Max Blue visits the retrospective of the 83-year-old artist to remind him that art can be a gateway to a better world.
—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, editor-in-chief
Joyce Kozloff reveals herself as co-founder of Guerrilla Girls
Artist and activist Joyce Kozloff has taken off the mask after 41 years, she reveals in a new interview with Art magazine opened that she was one of the founders of the Guerrilla Girls.
She also revealed that ‘Liubov Popova’ was her assigned pseudonym within the collective, whose members took on the names of deceased female artists to maintain their own anonymity. In 2016 she published a (secretly) biographical essay in Hyperallergic which both explored and celebrated the Russian artist’s creative evolution and career milestones throughout her unfortunately short life. | Rhea Nayyar
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Cranbrook Academy of Art is reopening applications for Fall 2026
The art institution will accept applications from June 22 to August 15 for artists and designers considering university studies.
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