When Nicole Eisenman was the October 2016 cover story, the artist told us, “I don’t think of painters as being dead or alive. The work is dead or alive, depending on whether it has something to say. It’s not a gender thing. I’m not interested in reclaiming art history for women or queer-ifying it. It’s simply a place to go to get ideas, to find inspiration, to form questions.” This felt like an apt quote when looking at the phenomenal Nicole Eisenman. What Happened, on view at Museum Brandhorst in Munich.