Linda Stein (artist)

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Linda Stein (born ca. 1955?) is an American sculptor and feminist.

Stein was born in The Bronx to a working-class family, she attended the School of Visual Arts and Queens College, where she earned a B.A. and, while working as an art teacher, an M.A. at the Pratt Institute [citation needed].

Her career began with a calligraphy service in New York. The business used the art gentrification of TriBeCa [citation needed].

Stein is very proud of a sculpture series fusing machetes with wood, rope and other materials that she did. She also paints and works in mixed media.

Stein is an opioninated feminist and a member of the Veteran Feminists of America. In 2005, the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen fooled her into an interview with his character Borat (telling her he was a journalist for Belarus Television making a documentary about the United States), which was included in his 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. In the interview, Cohen had Stein responded seriously and angrily to his ludicrous attitudes on women, so enflamed by anything anti-feminist that she couldn't see past the obviously absurd comments. Stein finally stormed off the interview set.[1][2] Stein is currently popular among feminists for her objection to the final editing of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.

When Stein told Borat that women in America can do anything men can, be president, secretary of state ("Oh, like that chocolate lady?" Borat replied) or even a reporter, Borat argued, "No. I can lift a chair!" At which point he stood up and lifted a chair. Not to be outdone, Stein lifted a chair as well. "I can lift two chairs," Borat countered, lifting two chairs. Somehow still not catching on, even with this absurdly stupid display Stein followed suit and did the same. She now takes exception to the omission of this scene from the film as she is quite impressed with herself for being able to lift two chairs. "He didn't choose the segments that really make the point that women are equal and strong. He didn't make the point with sexism that perhaps he did with anti-Semitism and homophobia." It should be noted however that it is highly unlikely that viewers of the film would take Borat's misogynistic attitude seriously in anyway or that the film could possibly promote those kinds of views.[3]

[edit] Selected solo exhibitions

Exhibition Title	Gallery Name	City, State
1975 CONSTRUCTIONS	Gallery North	Scarsdale, New York [citation needed]
1977 PROFILE	Gallery Camino Real	Boca Raton, Florida [citation needed]
1988 CHAIRS AND OTHER CONSTRUCTIONS	Borough of Manhattan Community College	New York [citation needed]
1989 -STEIN ENVIRONMENTAL EXCAVATION	Becton Hall Gallery	Fairleigh Dickenson University, New Jersey [citation needed]
STEIN EXCAVATION, Presented by mayor-Elect David Dinkins	gallery of Manhattan Borough	President, New York [citation needed]
1991 -BLADES: TRANSCENDING AGGRESSION	Monmouth County Arts Center	New Jersey [citation needed]
BLADES: REVERSING VIOLENCE	Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Window on Broad	The University of the Arts, Philadelphia [citation needed]
BLADES: A PSYCHOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT	Fairleigh Dickenson University, Edward Williams Gallery	New Jersey [citation needed]
BLADES IN NEW YORK: A MULTI-MEDIA ENVIRONMENT	Soho 20	New York [citation needed]
1994 -LINDA STEIN BLADES	Jamaica Arts Center	Queens, New York [citation needed]
1996 -MUSICAL BLADES	Cortland Jessup Gallery	Provincetown, Massachusetts [citation needed]
1998 -LINDA STEIN SOUNDING BLADES	Spiva Art Museum	Joplin, Missouri [citation needed]
2002 -LINDA STEIN EMBEDDED GLYPHS	The Art Club	New York [citation needed]
2004 -LINDA STEIN - THE FACE: AN OBSESSION OF ANGER (three decades)	Morgan Gallery	Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts [citation needed]
2005 -LINDA STEIN - "(K)NIGHT WATCH,"	New York University, Broadway Windows	New York [citation needed]
2006 -LINDA STEIN - KNIGHTS	Flomenhaft Gallery	New York [citation needed]
LINDA STEIN - SCULPTURE OF THE HEROIC WOMAN	Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Jim Thorpe	Pennsylvania [citation needed]
LINDA STEIN - WONDER WOMAN REBORN AS LINDA STEIN	The Art Mission Gallery	Binghamton, New York
LINDA STEIN - HEROIC VISIONS	Longstreth Goldberg Art	Naples, Florida