Lena Dunham's Art-world Roots, Still Showing Online

Lena's Art World Roots Still Showing
Cast member Lena Dunham arrives at the premiere of Universal's 'This Is 40,' December 12, 2012 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
Cast member Lena Dunham arrives at the premiere of Universal's 'This Is 40,' December 12, 2012 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)

She's been praised as the voice of her generation -- and derided as the pale-white child of privilege. But in all the fuss over what "Girls" creator/actor Lena Dunham represents in Our Culture Today, one contribution of hers has been shortchanged.

As the daughter of photographer Laurie Simmons and painter Carroll Dunham, she is one of the few people in TV to hold up a mirror (so accurate and so warped) to the serious silliness of the contemporary art world.

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