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Do Women Have to Die to Become Famous?
With the first major retrospective in Austria of the artist Charlotte Perriand coming up this May, we might stumble upon the fact that the title “first major retrospective exhibition of … (insert name of famous woman artist)” is not an isolated phenomenon but rather is becoming an almost normal event, that is, at least within the last decade or so. Charlotte Perriand, Eva Hesse, or Maria Bartuszová. These names are only a couple of those that many of the world's leading contemporary galleries and museums, such as the Tate, the Guggenheim Museum, or the Museum der Moderne Salzburg have been showcasing in the frame of dead famous women artists.


