The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

The Nurse and the Hijackers

1977
Location: 224B Video

Description

In The Nurse and the Hijackers, Eleanor Antin employs the structure of a popular movie genre in this feature-length, narrative video tape that acts as an armature for her continuing theatre of ideas, which to explore history, contemporary culture, and identity from a feminist perspective.
  • 2020
    (Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2020-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Eleanor Antin’s “Nurse and Hijackers”. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 9, 2025-January 11, 2026).
    Pioneers: Part Two. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 2, 2019-March 13, 2020).
  • {{cite web|title=The Nurse and the Hijackers|url=false|author=Eleanor Antin|year=1977|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.271