Making Space for Women Artists and Remembering My Mother, Joan Sommers
No woman wants to be a “woman artist.” If you are a woman and an artist, you want to be judged on your work. Period. As Georgia O’Keefe said, “The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I’m one of the best painters.” Gender qualification in the art world […]
Go Guerrilla Girls! Feminism Writ Large
“Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum?” According to the Guerrilla Girls, yeah, kind of. Their supersized billboard goes on to state that less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are females. They gathered the statistics in 2011, in […]