18 October 2008

Wasn't this the big, hairy-ball issue...

...that turned around all the voters in Quebec?
I'm holding this book, I'm thumbing through the pages with their luxuriant displays of vaginal flora and naked women smeared in paint or bound with twine and – due to the presence of the two men seated on either side of me – it's getting a little weird until I break the ice and explain that I am on my way to a feminist art exhibition in Vancouver.

I am an art critic. I am a feminist.

This is art.
Good grief.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:
Finally, a few key works were cut from the Vancouver show, like Mary Kelly's landmark Post-Partum Document (which famously displayed the soiled diapers of the artist's newborn son, accompanied by records of his food intake)
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