21st of October
The art: Suzanne Lacy, Three Days in May, 1977.  The news: “Our ‘Broken System’ Of Criminal Justice,” by John Paul Stevens for the New York Review of Books.  The source: On view now in “Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Nota bene from MOCA’s exhibition website: “In May 1977, Suzanne Lacy organized an ‘expanded performance’ over the course of three weeks to raise awareness among Los Angeles inhabitants of the frequency of assaults on women citywide. The project opened on Mother’s Day, May 8, 1977, and included performances and installations as well as non-art events such as speeches, interviews, self-defense demonstrations, and speak-outs. On this map of Los Angeles, installed in the mall outside City Hall, Lacy stenciled the word ‘RAPE’ in red on the approximate locations attacks reported to police during the three weeks of the project. (At the close of Three Weeks in May, ninety rapes had been reported.) The artist later stated that “if rape was practically a household experience [she should] make its name a household word.’” You can see more of the project here. More images from the rest of the MOCA exhibition are available here.

The art: Suzanne Lacy, Three Days in May, 1977. 

The news: “Our ‘Broken System’ Of Criminal Justice,” by John Paul Stevens for the New York Review of Books. 

The source: On view now in “Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Nota bene from MOCA’s exhibition website: “In May 1977, Suzanne Lacy organized an ‘expanded performance’ over the course of three weeks to raise awareness among Los Angeles inhabitants of the frequency of assaults on women citywide. The project opened on Mother’s Day, May 8, 1977, and included performances and installations as well as non-art events such as speeches, interviews, self-defense demonstrations, and speak-outs. On this map of Los Angeles, installed in the mall outside City Hall, Lacy stenciled the word ‘RAPE’ in red on the approximate locations attacks reported to police during the three weeks of the project. (At the close of Three Weeks in May, ninety rapes had been reported.) The artist later stated that “if rape was practically a household experience [she should] make its name a household word.’”

You can see more of the project here. More images from the rest of the MOCA exhibition are available here.

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