The following April, the gallery sent it to the Royal Academy, where it was much noticed in a Summer Exhibition that featured so many water -
women a critic dubbed it «the Mermaid's Cavern».
In a year
dubbed by the African American Film
Critics Assn. as the «Year of the
Woman in Cinema» for the unprecedented number of female - helmed projects, the absence is noticeable — and many on Twitter are not letting it pass by quietly.