Heralded as a feminist and denounced as misogynist, Robert Heinecken is a complex figure whose art raises urgent questions about the representation of women in a media saturated world. His use of found pornographic materials and images of female bodies taken from magazines, newspapers, and other found sources was, and still is, hotly debated among artists, scholars, and curators. This panel, is in conjunction with the exhibition Robert Heinecken: Object Matter, explores the various ways in which Heinecken's work has been read, and continues to be relevant, in the dialogue about representations of women and gender in art.