[1] She has held positions at numerous institutions including the Guggenheim Museum,[2] the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou[3] and the Palazzo Grassi.
[6] When working as curator for contemporary art at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1999 - 2004), she organized several exhibitions, including ‘Dear Painter, Paint Me: Painting the Figure Since Late Picabia’; ‘Daniel Buren Le Musee qui n’existait pas’, as well as projects with Urs Fischer, Thomas Hirschhorn and Kristin Baker.
The inclusion of Betty Tompkins does not a feminist exhibition make ipso facto — and neither do Penny Slinger, Natalia LL, or even Marilyn Minter.
What is Gingeras’s goal, with her exhibition title equating these artists to sex workers, beyond mere sensationalism?
With the smell of stale champagne and cologne wafting through the galleries, it’s extremely hard to digest this deluge of genitalia as anything more than a fetishistic amuse-bouche for the crowds.