kusama pyjamas
Titled for Yayoi Kusama, who is the cat's pyjamas.
I found an interesting albeit simplistic timeline showing key events that launched the Feminist art movement’. In 1969, the Whitney Annual (now a biennial) included 8 women out of 143 artists. How much as changed? I’ve heard the quote that 1 out of every 10 solo exhibitions in Chelsea is by a female artist.
Sounds about the same as 40 years ago.
As the Guerrilla Girls famously asked in 1989, “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”. At that time, the Guerilla Girls observed that ‘less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female’. Based on their updated poster for 2005 and the stats from 2008, I am remiss to conclude that not much has changed.
