Recommended article: reflection on women and art in relation to the MOMA exhibition “Images of women, a history of modern photography”
“Things have changed since those children's visits -at least as far as women artists are concerned- and all the museums force their gender walks. It's about time because forty years have passed since Linda Nochlin asked herself the uncomfortable question: why haven't there been great women artists? She answered it in the only possible way to do it: because they haven't had a chance to be. Like everything in this life, it is a matter of class. Would her father have encouraged Picasso to be a painter if he had been Pablito and not Pablita, says Nochlin?
So now the museums are striving - with very uneven results, it must be said - to include the artists in their collections, even dedicating specific exhibitions to them such as Elles, the recent one at the Pompidou, in which there were notable absences despite the dazzling nature of the exhibition. The pieces."
Extract from the article by Estrella de Diego published in Babelia. Read complete.
See also:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/mujeres/okupan/museo/elpepuculbab/20100703elpbabpor_30/Tes
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/caac/programa/col_nos10/frame.htm
