When you look at a work of art, what do you really see?

Patricia Hills breaks open the hidden truth about how elite museums have long tolerated racist, patriarchal, elitist and anti-working-class views of America. When the art establishment opposed her contrarian views, Hills took a stand.

As an art curator, art critic, art historian, and friend to some of the controversial artists of the 20thcentury, she forged a new art history. 

Art World Feminist is the story of a woman’s unconventional breakthrough into the male club, as well as an insider’s view of the counterculture, the feminist movement, anti-racism, left politics, and museum corporatization and censorship.  She provides a powerful rebuttal to the current political attacks on an honest American history—a must-read for understanding the American art establishment as it lurches through history.

Hills began her career as a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, had a family, then returned to graduate school to get a PhD at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. Hired as an associate curator by the Whitney Museum of American Art, she curated seven major exhibitions for the Whitney between 1972 and 1986.  While keeping her position at the Whitney, she turned to teaching at the City University of New York and then Boston University, where she also directed the Boston University Art Gallery.  She retired in 2014 and moved to Brooklyn in 2016, where she continues to write.