Priestesses of Pop: The female imprint on a genre of sex, irreverence and desire

March is Women's History Month, an annual embarrassment for too many art museums. Women have worked as artists for centuries, and if one uses a liberal definition of what defines art, women have always been artists. But until the 19th century, perhaps only a dozen women artists made careers large enough to ensure that their work survived, became canonical, and could be found regularly in mainstream art collections: Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, Élizabeth Vigée-Le Brun and Anne Vallaye...