Women's Work

June 2009 Datebook

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The 500 works, which are on view through May 2010, date from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Highlights include such new acquisitions as the English sculptor Rachel Whiteread’s 2003 Untitled (Room 101), a plaster cast commemorating the BBC office that inspired the torture chamber depicted in George Orwell’s 1984; Dorothea Tanning’s nightmarish installation Chambre 202, Hôtel du Pavot, 1970; and a 1939 portrait of Virginia Woolf by the 20th-century, German-born French photographer Gisèle Freund.

Architecture by Zaha Hadid — a model of her 2007 proposed design for the Philharmonie de Paris — and design by Matali Crasset are also displayed.

"The result is the opposite of the feminine, pretty, decorative works people might expect of women," says chief curator Camille Morineau. "Instead, the art is very radical, abstract and quite violent."

"Women's Work" originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's June 2009 Table of Contents.