We ask that the Times acknowledge and address this editorial lapse and the broader issues raised by these texts.” By the end of the year, 1,650 people-including myself, many other writers and critics, and artists such as Glenn Ligon, Kara Walker, Julie Mehretu, Dawoud Bey, Janine Antoni, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Paul Pfeiffer and Silvia Kolbowski-had signed the petition. Using irresponsible generalities, Johnson compares women and African-American artists to white male artists, only to find them lacking.” It ends, “The writing in these articles is below the editorial standards typical of the New York Times. Written by five young artists-Colleen Asper, Anoka Faruqee, Steve Locke, Dushko Petrovich and William Villalongo-it began, “The recent writing of art critic Ken Johnson troubles us. This digital snowball grew rapidly and resulted in an online petition titled “NY Times: Address/Correct Ken Johnson’s recent articles,” launched on Nov. A number of artists and writers reacted to these pieces via Facebook, urging readers to write to the Times “to refute and rebut the racially divisive and art historically inaccurate claims” in Johnson’s work. 8, came Johnson’s preview of another exhibition, “The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World” at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. On October 25, 2012, the New York Times published a review by Ken Johnson of the exhibition “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980” at New York’s MoMA PS1 (curated by Columbia University professor Kellie Jones and presented at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles a year earlier).