Feminist Art Shows

Does being a woman grant automatic entry into a feminist art show? Are women still oppressed, or is feminism itself a relic of the '70s?

Still Fewer Women

Given the stats, feminism, boiled down to a demand for equal rights, is as necessary as ever. Staging a show of women artists remains a feminist act, even in 2007.

From Even Great Women Artists Have a Difficult Time Showing, Selling by Carly Berwick.

Women account for barely one-fifth of solo exhibitions at New York galleries, according to the curators, who tallied the numbers from hundreds of venues. That figure is up from the '70s but down from the '90s, when the proportion peaked at 24 percent. Rather than wring their hands, the curators offer a corrective. It's a refreshing tactic amid a current wave of nostalgia for feminism.