the seminal show "The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2012, the Museum of Modern Art mounted Cindy Sherman, a show that chronicled Sherman's work from the mid-1970s on and include more than 170 photographs. The exhibition travelled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2013, Sherman was invited to organize a show within that year's Venice Biennale. In 2016, after a sabbatical from her studio which was spent "coming to terms with health issues and getting older," Sherman produced and staged her first photo gallery in five years. The series, "The Imitation of Life," named after a 1959 melodrama by Douglas Sirk, tackles aging by presenting Sherman in highly stylized glamour portraits inspired by the divas of old Hollywood, such as Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, and Ruby Keeler. The series was exhibited in 2016 at the Metro Pictures Gallery in New York City, and also at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. In 2017 it was shown at the Spruth Magers gallery in Berlin, Germany, and at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.Jeff Regensburger. "Art Review: Cindy Sherman's Imitation of Life at Wexner Center for the Arts." Columbus Underground (November 5, 2017). In 2019, the National Portrait Gallery, London, organised a major retrospective of Sherman's works from the mid-1970s to the present. Collections Works by Sherman are held in the following collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Broad, Los Angeles, CA Jewish Museum (Manhattan), New York, NY Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI Menil Collection, Houston, TX Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Tate Modern, Bankside, London Feminism In Sherman's Imitation of Life series of 2016 she poses, in vintage costume and theatrical makeup, as a variety of ageing actress-like women. When writing about Sherman's "Film Stills" in the journal October, the scholar Douglas Crimp states that Sherman's work is "a hybrid of photography and performance art that reveals femininity to be an effect of representation." However, Sherman does not consider her work or herself to be feminist, stating "The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff." Many scholars emphasize the relationship Cindy Sherman's