--- title: 2017_Antin_White Review date: 2017-11-01T15:37:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-antin-white-review" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Eleanor Antin](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) Eleanor Antin: Romans & Kings The White Review Oct 30, 2017 For the past five decades, feminist conceptual artist Eleanor Antin has created an anti-essentialist chronicle of herself. Working within a range of media – including photography, film, writing and installation – Antin has explored a stream of selves, influenced by everything from Yiddish theatre to European cinema. As she has commented: ‘I’ve always been addicted to masking, to the slipperiness of genre. I despise purity. It’s so boring. What the hell, it doesn’t exist, anyway.’ During her rise to prominence in New York’s downtown art scene of the late 1960s, when women artists and feminist themes were routinely excluded from gallery programming, Antin’s work presented female subjects with bare-knuckles chutzpah, depriving the viewer of the easy consolations of pathos or titillation. A recent reappraisal of feminist art from this period, such as the showcase ***Sex Work: Feminist Art & Radical Politics*** at Frieze London – featuring the libidinal, uninhibited work of artists such as Marilyn Minter (sucking, rhinestone-studded mouths) and Renate Bertlmann (cacti sprouting hot pink dildos) – shows how defiantly these second-wave feminists exploded taboos around female sexuality and the body. It also shows an establishment ready, 50 years on, to welcome them with open arms **[Read more here](http://www.thewhitereview.org/reviews/eleanor-antin-romans-kings/)** Related News & Press Sep 20, 2017 [ ![Antinanother](/assets/exhibition_images/antinanother.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-antin-anothermagazine) Sep 20, 2017 AnOther Magazine [Eleanor Antin](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [The Feminist Artist Who Dieted to Become a Marble Sculpture](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-antin-anothermagazine) Oct 21, 2017 [ ![Antin Portrait Of The King 1972 01 Thumb](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin-Portrait-of-the-King-1972-01_thumb.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-antin-paris-review) Oct 21, 2017 The Paris Review [Eleanor Antin](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [With a Bang: An Interview with Eleanor Antin](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-antin-paris-review) Jun 17, 2016 [ ![Eleanor Antin Artnews](/assets/exhibition_images/Eleanor_Antin_Artnews.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2016-antin-artnews-wagley) Jun 17, 2016 Art News [Eleanor Antin](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [Revisiting Eleanor Antin’s Groundbreaking Conceptual Portraits](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2016-antin-artnews-wagley) Sep 04, 2013 [ ![Antin Two Eleanors 1973](/assets/exhibition_images/Antin/Antin-Two-Eleanors-1973.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2013-antin-nytimes) Sep 04, 2013 New York Times [Eleanor Antin](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [She Creates Herself in Multitudes](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2013-antin-nytimes) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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