How Niki de Saint Phalle’s Forward-Thinking Feminism Changed the Art World

Niki de Saint Phalle was never an easy figure to pin down. She was an avant-garde iconoclast who was integral to the postwar art scene in France. She was an imaginative public artist who supplied a number of outré creations for various sites around the world. And she was an activist who advocated for the social causes of her time, among them civil rights, feminism, and AIDS awareness.
While her many attributes are widely known in her home country of France—especially after a retrosp