Art Is Still A Man's Game In NY

When it comes to being artists, women can be as bad as men. The problem is that even now, decades after the onset of women's liberation, women aren't being allowed to demonstrate this. According to the autumn art exhibition schedules for 125 well-known New York galleries - 42 percent of which are owned or co-owned by women - of the 297 one-person shows by living artists taking place between now and December 31, just 23 percent are solos by women. On the fourth and fifth floors of the Museum of Modern Art, in the galleries devoted to the permanent collection of art from 1879 to 1969, there are currently 399 objects. Only 19, or 5 percent, of those art objects are by women. Meanwhile, since 2000 only 14 percent of the Guggenheim's solo shows of living artists have been devoted to women. The programmatic exclusion of women is partly attributable to the art world's being a self-replicating organism: It sees that the art that is shown and sold is made mainly by men, and therefore more art made by men is shown and sold. This is how the misidentification, what Adorno called a "negative system," is perpetuated. For the full story - click the title Irish Art