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http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20131112-the-art-worlds-glass-ceiling
In this article about a retrospective of the work of sculptor Isa Genzken at the MOMA in New York (which itself has gone as long as sixteen years between solo exhibits of women artists), BBC arts reporter Jason Farago discusses the dismal state of the arts world as regards women artists.
In this article about a retrospective of the work of sculptor Isa Genzken at the MOMA in New York (which itself has gone as long as sixteen years between solo exhibits of women artists), BBC arts reporter Jason Farago discusses the dismal state of the arts world as regards women artists.
... the massive Genzken show (which tours in 2014 to Chicago and Dallas) carries even more weight than usual, because when it opens it will be one of the only full-scale exhibitions by a female artist at any of New York’s most important museums. Thanks to a combination of scheduling accidents and garden-variety sexism, male artists are occupying pretty much every major exhibition space in town, from Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim to Chris Burden at the New Museum and Balthus at the Met.
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Women’s representation in the art world remains so bad that, on the rare occasions that a show of contemporary art hits gender parity, it actually counts as a news story. The Whitney Biennial of 2010, organized by the Italian curator Francesco Bonami, included 55 artists, of whom just over half were women. It was instantly proclaimed ‘the women’s biennial,’ complete with awkward discussions of allegedly feminine characteristics of painting and sculpture, not to mention a glossy photo shoot in The New York Times’ fashion magazine. But as Bonami correctly insisted, a ‘women’s biennial’ would be one that was 100% women. To include men and women in approximately equal numbers is simply doing one’s job.