Melanie McDonagh Melanie McDonagh

A mess: British Museum’s Feminine Power – the Divine to the Demonic reviewed

Despite some fascinating artefacts, there's a curious lack of confidence in the works and very little of the Virgin Mary

Left, ‘Tiare Wahine’, a Hawaiian volcano goddess, by Tom Pico, 2001, and right, ‘Kali Murti’ by Kaushik Ghosh, 2022 [© The Trustees of the British Museum]

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