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There is an increasing sense of solidarity among many women working in the arts today. But there is also a new vulnerability being voiced. ‘People are afraid to say that they’re looking at their collection and totting up percentages,’ says Jessica Morgan, Director of Dia Art Foundation.
Apr 27, 2024 · Women Artists Are Catching Up, but Equality Will Still Take a While. An exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts features an array of artists sharing their views of an...
Nov 8, 2022 · Five years after #MeToo, the art world is taking small steps to redress some of the enormous inequalities still facing female artists.
- The Winner-Takes-All Dynamic
- Gallery Representation and Revenue
- Limiting Markets from The Get-Go
- Hello, Bias? It’S Me, The Art Market
- Change Ahead?
The market for art by women is not only smaller, it is also disproportionately concentrated on a few artists. Just five account for $1.6 billion of the $4 billion total spent on work by women over the past 11.5 years. That 40.7 percent market share was split between, in descending order, Yayoi Kusama, Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Georgia O’Keef...
Galleries also bear responsibility for correcting these biases. “There is a structural issue in that galleries don’t represent enough women in their programs. You need to educate collectors,” Payot says. “You need to confront them with quality.” We surveyed some of the leading galleries about the number of female artists they represent and the prop...
Bias is built into the way works are priced. The value of a work of art is usually decided by drawing a comparison with artists from similar eras or schools. But in market transactions, women artists are siloed. While men are compared with other artists that have similar profiles and trajectories, some market players say it is common practice to co...
Dealers, collectors, and others cite many reasons why the market for work by women remains disproportionately small: there were fewer female than male artists working until the 20th century; women have made art that is less easily commodified than that made by men; there is less research published on the work of women, which makes it more difficult...
All hope is not lost. Although it remains a tiny slice of the whole, the market for work by women is experiencing an upward trend, more than doubling from $230 million to $595 million in the decade since 2008. That’s a rate of growth faster than the art market as a whole, which increased by 72 percentover the same period. Data suggests this shift i...
Jun 15, 2022 · Women artists are woefully underrepresented in the permanent collections of major museums around the world – these are the works of art that are owned by museums and hung on the walls year-round...
The set of Curations contains works by 1,000 female artists in total. You won't find the likes of Frida Kahlo or Hilma af Klint as their works are not in UK public collections (yet), but you will find a wealth of art from works by Eileen Agar to Doris Zinkeisen – and plenty more in between.
Jan 24, 2020 · RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: How many famous female artists can you name? No, not Beyonce or Rihanna, but fine artists like Frida Kahlo and Mary Cassatt. If you're having trouble thinking of more than a...
