In New Documentary, Artist Marilyn Minter Overcomes the Burden of Shame in the Art World

Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter—a new documentary that screened as part of the DOC NYC film festival at IFC Center on Thursday—exposes the perhaps underrated value that a sense of humor carries in the fickle, and sometimes demoralizing, contemporary art world. The film shares a name with the title of Minter’s retrospective, “Pretty/Dirty,” which toured the country from 2015 to 2017. By this point, Minter had been consistently making gritty, provoc