I came to Herstory hoping to see depth, guts, the ambition and potency of “The Dinner Party” and instead found nothing but surface.
Alice Procter
Alice Procter is an art historian and writer working on colonial memory in museums. She is the author of The Whole Picture (Cassell, 2020)
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The ADAA Art Show Is the Sophisticated Aunt of Art Fairs
The sprawling Park Avenue Armory fair, thoughtfully and spaciously curated, is never too stuffy or zeitgeisty.
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Barbara T. Smith Tells Her Side of the Story
The artist’s memoir The Way To Be is at times rough around the edges, but it’s worth it.
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What’s Left to Say About Picasso?
A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn at The Met is a compact, simple display, but the work and research it contains is diminished by being so cut off from its historical and personal contexts.
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Hannah Gadsby’s Picasso Show Is a Victim of Its Hype
It’s Pablo-matic is not a great exhibition, but it’s also not the catastrophe that some people have described.
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The Backlash Against Oil Sponsorship Can Push for Broader Change in Museums
The British Museum’s complicity in BP’s artwashing ranks alongside the museum’s continual refusal to engage with its own colonial history.
