See also: http://www.not-surprised.org/home/
As Women of the Art World Join Together to Condemn Sexism, Artforum Promises Change
Miscellaneous
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Illustrated
Art historian Linda Nochlin passed away on October 29, 2017.
An Illustrated Guide to Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
Garden of Constants: Interview with artist Barbara Grygutis
https://ece.osu.edu/news/2017/09/garden-constants-interview-artist-barbara-grygutis
http://www.barbaragrygutis.com/garden-of-constants/?rq=garden%20of%20constants
Cindy Sherman as Feminist Question Mark
AAMD 2017 Salary Survey
AAMD has released its 2017 Salary Survey, which includes responses from 219 museums in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and covers more than 50 different staff positions, from the director’s office to leadership and support positions in curatorial, education, advancement, communications, and security departments.
https://aamd.org/sites/default/files/document/2017%20AAMD%20Salary%20Survey_0.pdf
The Museumification of Everything
Thomas Campbell, Former Director of the Met
“Campbell, born in Singapore, raised in the UK and educated at Oxford and the Courtald Institute of Art in London, arrived at the Met as an assistant curator in 1995. “Tapestry Tom”, as he came to be known, is the first to admit that his appointment as director 14 years later came as much as a surprise to him as his colleagues. While he had curated critically acclaimed exhibitions, he was not seen as an obvious leader, nor as his predecessor Philippe de Montebello’s heir apparent.
“When they first approached me, I thought, ‘My god, you’ve got to be joking’,” Campbell recalled. “But when I thought about it, there was a logic to it. I was a mid-career curator who was passionate about the museum and its mission and had perhaps a fairly good idea of how it needed to evolve.”
The Obama Foundation Fellowship
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/obama-foundation-fellowship-1095821
Walker Art Center’s Reckoning
“Ms. Viso’s history with “Scaffold” goes back years. She recalled first seeing it on exhibition in Europe and proposed the work to the Walker; the board signed off on the $450,000 purchase in 2014, according to minutes from the Walker board’s acquisition committee. Walker curators were aware that other work by Mr. Durant dealt with the Dakota war, and the museum has acknowledged that it should have engaged in a meaningful way with Native American leaders before mounting “Scaffold.”