Using irresponsible generalities, Johnson compares women and African-American artists to white male artists, only to find them lacking.вЂќ It ends, вЂњThe writing in these articles is below the editorial standards typical of the New York Times.

Written by five young artists-Colleen Asper, Anoka Faruqee, Steve Locke, Dushko Petrovich and William Villalongo-it began, вЂњThe recent writing of art critic Ken Johnson troubles us. This digital snowball grew rapidly and resulted in an online petition titled вЂњNY Times: Address/Correct Ken JohnsonвЂ™s recent articles,вЂќ launched on Nov. A number of artists and writers reacted to these pieces via Facebook, urging readers to write to the Times вЂњto refute and rebut the racially divisive and art historically inaccurate claimsвЂќ in JohnsonвЂ™s work. 8, came JohnsonвЂ™s preview of another exhibition, вЂњThe Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their WorldвЂќ at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. On October 25, 2012, the New York Times published a review by Ken Johnson of the exhibition вЂњNow Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980вЂќ at New YorkвЂ™s MoMA PS1 (curated by Columbia University professor Kellie Jones and presented at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles a year earlier).

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