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Article: Feminism's future explored at MOMA.(Museum of Modern Art organizes two day discussion The Feminist Future)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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As many speakers observed, the most remarkable thing about the Museum of Modern Art's two-day feminist talk-a-thon, "The Feminist Future" (Jan. 26-27), was that it happened at all. For MOMA, long a target of protests by women, to play host to a program conceived by a regularly convening group of female curators called the Modern Women's Project Committee was a truly historic turn of events, and described as such with infectious cheer by principal organizer Deborah Wye, chief curator of prints and illustrated books. Indeed the Guerrilla Girls, stalwart statisticians of art-world bias and venality, reminded the audience in their sprightly presentation that what originally ...