The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles opened WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Geffen Contemporary on March 4, 2007. Organized by MOCA curator Connie Butler, the survey framed feminist art internationally rather than as a narrowly American episode, concentrating on the crucial period from 1965 to 1980. It brought together approximately 120 artists and collectives from 21 countries across painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance. The exhibition mattered because it gave museum-scale historical form to practices that had often been treated as activism, ephemera, or marginal art history, and it traveled afterward to Washington, New York, and Vancouver.
It helped canonize feminist art as a central field of postwar and contemporary art history.
