A “Genius” Inquires: Is Visibility Too Much To Ask?

“As of today, painter Joan Snyder is a MacArthur Foundation anointed ‘genius,’ and there’s just one modest request she has: Could the institutions that own her paintings please put them on display? ‘At least two major museums in New York own my work, and it sits in the basement,’ she said, referring to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. ‘And now the Guggenheim has one, and I hope they hang it.’ “