A Space of Their Own aims to compile the most comprehensive resource to date for information on female artists active in the United States and Europe during this time.
A New Illustrated Database for Women Artists Spans the 15th to 19th Centuries
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Museum Women: Why Are We Tolerating This?
Museum Women: Why Are We Tolerating This?
Image: Most Frequent Forms of Gender Discrimination (in the museum workplace), from THE SURVEY: Gender Equity in the Museum Workplace, conducted by Anne W. Ackerson and Joan Baldwin, 2018.
CMA Creates New Group of LGBTQ Patrons
With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Color
A growing number of people of color in New York City’s curatorial world include, from left, Rujeko Hockley, Marcela Guerrero, Adrienne Edwards, and Christopher Y. Lew of the Whitney Museum of American Art.Credit Bryan Derballa for The New York Times
That Lady Thing
Gender play gap: behind the fun facade of a feminist pop-up museum
That Lady Thing, an installation in San Francisco, gives issues of sexism an unlikely coat of color in a lighthearted way of communicating a serious message.
A portion of That Lady Thing’s $28.45 entry fee will donate funds to the National Women’s Law Center and other women’s organizations. Photograph: Nicole Henderson/The Lady Thing.
The Rise of Artistic Censorship on College Campuses Should Worry the American Public
Josephine Meckseper, Untitled (Flag 2), 2017. Photo by Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of Creative Time.
Artistic freedom protects high and low art alike; notions of “good taste” and artistic worthiness are the realm of the artist or curator, not the bureaucrat. But at a number of American universities, controversy has been acting as the curator, leading to the degradation of both freedom of speech and students’ ability to interact with challenging artwork.
To Fight Racism Within Museums, They Need to Stop Acting Like They’re Neutral
“In April, the Brooklyn Museum hired a white curator, Kristen Windmuller-Luna to oversee its collection of African art. The appointment outraged skeptics who felt that a black curator should oversee the institution’s African objects. Decolonize This Place, a New York activist group, staged a protest occupying the museum’s Beaux-Arts Court and penned a letter publicly accusing the museum of racism and aiding gentrification, demanding prompt change. One protester flung a pink banner over a balcony that read: “THEY WANT THE ART, NOT THE PEOPLE.”
The sign, for me, gets at the heart of the debate around how to combat racism in cultural institutions, which are both succeeding and failing to address the issue.”