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‘Black Rosy,’ by Niki De Saint Phalle Court. Courtesy of The Brooklyn Museum
Notice a tint of gender bias in terms like “masterpiece” and “old master”? Now a picture is emerging of not just historical, but persistent discrimination against women in the art world. A slew of recent museum exhibitions aims to fill in the blanks. The latest, “Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968” (at the Brooklyn Museum through Jan. 9), brings a feminine presence to the masculine-sounding term “pop art.”
The show features works by 25 women who helped develop pop art but who (except for the sculptor Marisol) disappeared from art history books. “These artists were all visible once,” says Sid Sachs, director of exhibitions at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, who conceived the show. Yet when the first art histories and surveys of the movement appeared, he adds, “There was a real critical culling.” Mr. Sachs made it his mission to “cherchez la femme” and says, that through exhaustive research, “I found the women!”
Carol Strickland
Christian Science Monitor
Slow Painting 