CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/1/2020

Celebrate Women's History Month with this new monograph on Kiki Smith

"Pyre Woman Kneeling" (2002) is reproduced from Kiki Smith, a staff pick for Women's History Month. "I was once asked to propose something for an outdoor public commission," Smith writes. "While I didn’t get the commission, I thought, what would I make if I could make public commissions? I decided to make sculptures of the women who had been burnt at the stake with their arms open wide in the pose of Jesus asking: Why hast thou forsaken me? Somehow, I thought lots of places would need them, but they have not, so far. There are very few memorials to the murder of women.”