Why Judy Chicago is the artist the art world loves to hate

The Boston Globe | September 24, 1995| | Copyright

WALTHAM -- As a young artist in the 1960s, Judy Chicago received a slice of advice from a mentor: "Just keep working."

Whatever else Chicago learned during those early years, those words have most sustained her. She has kept working through fiery diatribes from the floor of the US Senate. She has dodged the slings and arrows of art critics who routinely savage her work. Her projects have been slammed as obscene, pornographic and just plain bad. She was once profiled as "the artist critics love to hate" -- and that magazine piece was written by a longtime friend and colleague.

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