Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Mono Lake [still] (1968/2004). Super 8mm film and Instamatic slides. Color, sound. Duration: 19 minutes, 54 seconds. © Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. In a 1992 interview recorded for the Smithsonian, the…

Jill Dawsey illustrates the pressing relevance of feminist artist Andrea Bowers’s iconography, built upon lineages of protest, political struggle, and narrative-making for reproductive rights. Through the visceral, material act of drawing, Bowers commands an immediacy in how we must activate history to frame and mobilize our present. The Los Angeles-based artist's first ever museum retrospective surveying over two decades of work is currently on view at the Hammer Museum.