🎭 Culture May 15, 2026 · Olivia McEwan

Artist Valie Export, Who Saw Right Through the Male Gaze, Dies at 85

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Artist Valie Export, Who Saw Right Through the Male Gaze, Dies at 85
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Austrian artist Valie Export, a powerfully provocative yet playful force in feminist art, died on May 14, three days before her 86th birthday. The news of her passing was confirmed by Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery.Export's performances and filmed media works subverted — nay, stomped on — notions of the male gaze and patriarchal society, reclaiming and reinterpreting the female body through guerrilla modes of delivery that bypassed the restrictions of institutional spaces. Her contri

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