Melissa Lo

Melissa Lo is a feminist historian of early modern science, medicine, and visual culture. She writes about the politics of art, cultures of images, and histories of contentious knowledge. Based in Los Angeles, she serves on the board of the Feminist Center of Creative Work.

Carla, Reviews• October 7, 2021

More than Not: LACMA’s “Not I” and the Necessity of History

By Melissa Lo

Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE), a recent exhibition at LACMA, was in thrall to its ideas. Though ventriloquism was its central theme,…