This post juxtaposes brief notes with reproductions of five women-focused works at Chicago’s Art Institute. Readers are invited to make whatever connections they will and draw whatever conclusions they might between the art works, which seem to me unified only in their focus on women, in the genius of their making (by men, by the way), and by their co-existence in one Chicago institution. I would also note that these works are not unified even in their reproducibility. Three of these works are sculptures, […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: art, Art Institute of Chicago, art museums, Balthus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Laura Mulvey, male gaze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mirό, Roland Barthes, Willard Van Orman Quine, women