Since charges of sexual harassment and assault
emerged against Weinstein last fall, unleashing a cascade of similar accusations and the creation of such movements as #MeToo and Time's Up, the
movie industry has been embroiled in a push - pull of self - examination and defensiveness.
«By the mid - and late - 1970s,» wrote the curator Richard Marshall in his essay for the exhibition «American Art Since 1970» at the Whitney Museum, «painting had moved further away from the confines of the Minimalist approach — even from a negative reaction to it — and the artists [Jennifer Bartlett, Vija Celmins, Lois Lane, Neil Jenney, Bill Jensen and Elizabeth Murray] inaugurated new ways to treat subject matter and meaning -LSB-...] there
emerged a move
against an insular, elitist attitude towards art and what it is, should be, or must be -LSB-...] artists began to look at more diverse visual repertory: commercial art, advertising, fashion, television and
movies, popular culture, the decorative arts, rugs, religion, ancient artifacts, and Middle Eastern Cultures.»