The Art History Newsletter

‘Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage’

by | 30 January 2007 | Conferences

From the New York Times: “‘Well, this is quite a turnout for an ‘ism,’ said the art historian and critic Lucy Lippard on Friday morning as she looked out at the people filling the Roy and Niuta Titus Theater at the Museum of Modern Art and spilling into the aisles. ‘Especially in a museum not notorious for its historical support of women.’ Ms. Lippard, now in her 70s, was a keynote speaker for a two-day symposium organized by the museum … an unofficial curtain-raiser for what is shaping up as a watershed year for the exhibition — and institutionalization, skeptics say — of feminist art.”