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by Art Fag City on July 7, 2009 Fresh Links!

Setting the Record Straight: Critics Respond – Finer Things – News & Opinion – Art in America

Jerry Saltz Responds to Philip Smith’s letter to AiA on the subject of his exclusion from the Pictures show. “As curated by Mr. Eklund, ‘Pictures’ was less a show than a feel-good class-reunion. Except Mr. Eklund expanded and contracted the class in dubious ways. Firstly, ‘Pictures Art’ is the only movement of the 20th century that is made up primarily of women. Creepy and depressing, then, that of the 30 artists in ‘The Pictures Generation,’ only 11 are women….”

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