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“THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.”On a banner trailing an airplane circling the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago, this message read mysteriously to all who spied it in the soporific sunset heat, including those like me coming to the Renaissance Society’s first benefit under its new director Myriam Ben Salah and orchestrated under an impresario, the grandly sly Italian artist Piero Golia.After too many buses and trains from the airport, I walked through the deepening dusk under rounded terracotta arches alongside the long drive leading up to the front doors of the 1909 Mediterranean Revival...

Young Woman Drawing (1801). The painting was the cover image on  ARTnews for the 1971 publication of Linda Nochlin’s article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. MoMA hosts a virtual forum on critic Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” published in  ARTnews in 1971. On the occasion of the article’s 50th anniversary, Roxana Marcoci, the museum’s senior photography curator, and Julia Trotta, a filmmaker, curator, and writer, will look at the barriers to art world succ...