Judy Chicago was a leader and a forerunner of feminist art in the US. Searching through the Archives of American Art this week for something else, I stumbled upon this 1977 manifesto she wrote as part of the programming she devised for the Los Angeles Women's Building (largely the subject of the historic exhibition WACK at MoCA some years back).

It's hard to wrap our minds around anything today but the looming civil war in the middle east or the CDC's no mask or Columbia's resurgence of violence or the premiere of Barry Jenkins adaptation of The Underground Railroad.

But Chicago's posit "that the basis of our culture is grounded in a pernicious fallacy which causes us to believe that alienation is the human condition and real human contact unattainable..."sounded like it could apply to all of the above and is not a truism in any way relegated only to feminist art.