Chabon mentions Pynchon

[David Morris]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/oct/25/art-switch-men-women-gender

Seattle Art Museum has done a striking thing. It has removed all works
by modern male artists from its galleries and filled them with works
by 20th- and 21st-century women artists from Georgia O'Keeffe to
Pipilotti Rist.

Works of art by Jasper Johns and Jackson Pollock have gone into
storage. Instead, you can see paintings by Pollock's wife, Lee
Krasner, and her fellow abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler.

Is this the best way to rebalance art history? After all, patriarchy
is not the personal fault of, say, Robert Rauschenberg – another of
Seattle's vanished dead white males. Rauschenberg is a highly
original, compelling artist whose work inspires artists today – male
and female alike. One young artist who seems to me to work in his
tradition is, for instance, Lucy Skaer.

In fact, the stunt in Seattle is only for a few months: the big macho
names will be back in town soon enough. But still. This is a slightly
old-fashioned political art gesture, surely?

Maybe not.