Feminism

Nicole Gravier’s ‘fotoromanzi’ at Ermes-Ermes, Vienna, create an escapist melodrama that stresses the dependence of capitalism on unpaid housework by women

40 years on, the fight for reproductive rights, and against sexual violence, has never been more pressing

Have the feminist politics of maximalist pattern and craft now been co-opted by neoliberals?

In further news: staff at LA MoCA take steps to unionize; Hetain Patel wins Film London Jarman Award

As a five-decade survey of her work opens at Baltic in Gateshead, the legendary feminist discusses why women artists need to keep pushing for change

Marwa Arsanios’s latest documentary offers a powerful glimpse at the autonomous movement now being torn apart

From literary personas to art world fraudsters, these artists walk a fine line between rerouting their positions and breaking the law

At Berlin’s KW Institute, Chicago Imagism, corporeal feminism and bondage scenarios.

An exhibition aims to give voice to the ‘fallen women’ at the heart of the Victorian brotherhood

The artist’s exhibition at Delmes & Zander, Cologne, exposes society’s fear of sexually self-determined women

In further news: British Council condemns curator’s imprisonment in Iran; Australia’s first gallery showing all women artists set to open

A force in the late ’80s and ’90s, the photographer and critic receives her first solo show in over 22 years at Autograph, London

A new show at Richard Saltoun begs the question – how effective is self-inflicted violence?

With over 100 works, ‘Straying from the Line’ brings together superb work under the rubric of anti-essentialism

Social media giant to meet with activists demanding end to artistic censorship

What the frieze editors have been reading this week 

Marysia Lewandowska unearthed a collection of photographs while searching the Venice Archives, ahead of her display at this year’s Biennale

An exhibition at Peres Projects, Berlin, shows how society’s attitudes to sex have changed throughout the 86-year-old artist’s career

‘To Carolee, drawing, like painting, was as visceral as breath,’ writes Emma McCormick-Goodhart

The new statues will honour women including jazz icon Billie Holiday and civil rights leader Elizabeth Jennings Graham