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Article: Art without balls.(Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art)(Book review)
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- The Women's Review of Books
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- May 1, 2008
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Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art
Edited by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin
London and New York: Merrell, 2007, 304 pp., $54.95, hardcover
"Does a woman artist need to have balls to be worth talking about?" I asked a senior male colleague. He and I were sharing the stage at a panel discussion held in conjunction with the exhibition "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City in November 2007. He had just addressed the capacity crowd, regaling us with a wildly animated and presumably extemporaneous tribute to Walker, an ...