Suzanne Lacy's retrospective highlights how the performance artist has extended her feminist analyses to political issues of labor, climate change, religious difference, and global capitalism.
Social practice is going mainstream as more artists focus their work on making an impact on problems like homelessness and pollution. But the question of how to judge activist art remains elusive
With artists increasingly involving the public in the creation of work, curators and museums have embarked on a quest to define, display, and collect participatory art.