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"Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness."
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This was said in what year: 1600, 1850, 1955, 2008?
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Well, probably in all of them, but this particular quote dates from three days ago. "Women make up 50 per cent or more of classes at art school. Yet they fade away in their late 20s or 30s. Maybe it's something to do with bearing children," says British art critic Brian Sewer, er Sewell, in a July 6 feature from The Independent. .
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Uh, maybe it has something to do with bearing the brunt of art history as it has been taught, with critics and curators following those teachings, and--I hate to say this--with some women curators so eager for a piece of the androgenic pie that they deny there's an issue.
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Not great?
Louise Bourgeois, Maman, shown at the Guggenheim, Bilbao
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Not great?
Mary Heilmann, All Tomorrow's Parties, Exhibition View, Secession 2003
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Not great?
Anything by Joan Mitchell
Not great?
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes
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Jeff Koons, Sacred Heart, on the Met Roof
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