Full of prim euphemism: Brian Dillon on Dave Hickey’s 25 Women

There are many reasons to be put off by Dave Hickey’s new book, 25 Women, which seems like the critical equivalent of the ill-judged Saatchi Gallery exhibition Champagne Life (13 January-6 March) that recently corralled 14 women artists together like—well, like the kind of creatures one rounds up.
In Hickey’s case there’s the vague-to-vanishing rationale: “The women in this book asked me to write about their work and found me enthusiastic about the prospect.”