The best place in Nashville to see feminist art right now is at a hotel. But that’s no surprise to anyone familiar with 21c Museum Hotels, the small chain of boutique hotels that has been collecting and exhibiting contemporary art since its inception in the mid-Aughts. The current show, The Future Is Female, includes solid work from heavy-hitting feminist art stars like Carrie Mae Weems, Marilyn Minter, Betty Tompkins and Jenny Holzer. But it’s the inclusion of excellent work from Nashville-based artists — including Vadis Turner, Jodi Hays and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons — that elevates the show into greatness.
