From the February 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Lynda Benglis is probably still best known for the advert she ran in Artforum in 1974 where she posed naked, but for a pair of sunglasses and a large plastic dildo, to coincide with her exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York. It was a way of ‘mocking sexuality, machoism, and feminism’, she explained in an interview.
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