she created over 20 years beginning in 1989. A related piece was recently acquired by the Met as an exemplar of feminist critique, despite having been famously censored from a 1974 exhibition amid protests from top artists, curators, and critics including Louise Bourgeois, Alice Neel and Clement Greenberg. Given the current erosion of reproductive rights in the U.S.
gallery — titled “Angry Bitches”— add up to a kind of comeuppance, a true I-told-you-so, for Bernstein, now 80, and her unchanging but sadly ever-relevant activist-artist preoccupations. It felt important to see such political work amidst so much prettiness.) returned once again to its Upper East Side home at the Park Avenue Armory, with some 100 presentations of not just fine art but also design objects, furniture and jewelry from around the world and from centuries that predate ours.
I saw a lot of beautiful things, but I can’t stop dreaming about ditching the heavy security to abscond with works by Giorgio Morandi from