(Female) Artists

Is it shocking to hear that over the past decade, only 11% of the acquisitions made by major museums have been works by female artists? Are you stunned? Sadly, you are probably unsurprised. Gender inequality in the arts is a massive problem. Gender inequality is a massive problem, period. A few Mary Cassatt’s and a sprinkling of Sonia Delauney’s does not a fair representation make. Brava to the Guggenheim for devoting their main exhibition space, in 2018/19, to Swedish mystical-expressionist, Hilma af Klint. It was af Klint’s first major exhibition. Too bad she wasn’t around to see it—she died in 1944.