Niki de Saint Phalle, ‘La fontaine Stravinsky,’ c. 1983 Photo: Green Moon Marketing. © 2021 Niki Charitable Art Foundation
When she was in her sixties, the artist Niki de Saint Phalle, looking back on her decades-long career, wrote to a curator, “I wanted the world and the world belonged to MEN. . . . Very early I got the message that MEN HAD POWER AND I WANTED IT. YES, I WOULD STEAL THEIR FIRE FROM THEM. . . . Men’s roles seem to give them a great deal more freedom, and I WAS RESOLVED THAT FREEDOM WOULD BE MINE.”
“Niki de Saint Phalle: Structures for Life” is an apt
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