Surreal Ideas About Sex
Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper
November 2018
In the final room of the Dorothea Tanning exhibition now on view at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, visitors will see one of Tanning’s quotes on the wall. “Women artists. There is no such thing—or person,” it begins. “It’s just as much a contradiction in terms as ‘man artist’ or ‘elephant artist’. You may be a woman and you may be an artist; but the one is a given and the other is you.” […]