{"id":25600,"date":"2020-01-14T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=25600"},"modified":"2020-01-06T22:15:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T03:15:42","slug":"boston-museum-of-fine-arts-establishes-a-ghetto-for-female-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/14\/boston-museum-of-fine-arts-establishes-a-ghetto-for-female-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Museum of Fine Arts establishes a ghetto for female artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’re looking to escape the Boston winter, our Museum of Fine Arts is showing “Women Take the Floor”<\/a> currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entrance sign explains that “[the underrepresentation of female artists in museums] is not because great women artists did not exist–they did, and they do. Rather it is the result of systematic gender discrimination… The MFA itself has had an inconsistent history in supporting women artists. We acknowledge the fact and seek to remedy it. …. we are dedicating this entire floor to work by women-identified artists…” A sign further notes that only 5% of acquisitions by the MFA in the past ten years have been “by known female-identifying artists”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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