As long as the art world has been bastion for self-expression and radical system-challenging, the structures that make it up have often been exclusionary and narrow-minded. Part of the work of the current fight against injustice is to examine the country’s most enduring fixtures- like art museums- and force the systemic hang-ups that’s baked into them…
Professor Renee Adams, a finance professor at Oxford, and her colleagues, Roman Kraussl, Marco Navone, and Patrick Verwijmeren, set out to answer the long asked question of why women artists are often times less famous than their counterparts. In December 2017 they published a study which explored gender discrepancies between men and women in the art world. There…
Art, especially contemporary art, can go very wrong very quickly. When Sean Combs puts a phone charger in a woman’s privates and calls it art, you know something’s gone horrifically wrong. The art world has become jaded, desensitized, and dare we say it: devoid of meaning. But there are people in the art world who…
