Global museums great and small are featuring female artists in major 2020 exhibitions. Here are a dozen or so of the most intriguing shows. The international art world has long suffered from a serious case of gender inequality. In the last decade, only 14 percent of exhibitions at 26 major American museums were of work by women, according to studies by ArtNet.com. Museums are not buying work by women, either. Of the 260,470 works added […]
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EXHIBITIONS OF EQUALITY (2 of 2)
Global museums great and small are featuring female artists in major 2020 exhibitions. Here are a dozen or so of the most intriguing shows. The international art world has long suffered from a serious case of gender inequality. In the last decade, only 14 percent of exhibitions at 26 major American museums were of work by women, according to studies by ArtNet.com. Museums are not buying work by women, either. Of the 260,470 works added […]
VANITY FLAIR
Celebrity culture on display in Century City The glossy magazine Vanity Fair reveres portrait photography, especially images of actors, athletes, celebrities, and other members of California’s creative class. Some 130 images of Hollywood royalty from the publication will be on display at The Annenberg Space for Photography’s current exhibition: Vanity Fair: Hollywood Calling – The Stars, the Parties, and the Powerbrokers. Curated by Vanity Fair’s creative development editor David Friend and the magazine’s former director […]
ART WITHOUT BORDERS
Travels in Mexico and Artemio Sepúlveda at Laguna Art Museum Laguna Art Museum continues its long-standing relationship with the renowned collection of Newport Beach lawyer Gene Crain with the exhibition Travels in Mexico: Watercolors from the Diane and E. Gene Crain Collection, February 20-May 25, 2020. In recent years, the museum has included works from the Crain collection in well-regarded exhibitions such as California Holiday, Rex Brandt: In Praise of Sunshine, and Travels with Millard […]