the Guerrilla Girls - an anonymous group of artists who use
humor to illustrate gender inequities in the art world -
surveyed the most influential galleries and museums in the
country and found that most exhibited little to no work by
women.Twenty-seven years ago, The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
was but one example. Of 169 artists on display, only 13 were
female. Even worse, the modern art section of New York's
Metropolitan Museum was 97 percent male; on the flip side, 83
percent of the nudes were - you guessed it - girls and women.
"Frida Kahlo" - Guerrilla Girls adopt the names of dead artists
when speaking publicly - says that while some progress has been
made since 1985, parity remains distant. "At the emerging level,
things are better for women. There are more women in museum
collections as a whole, but it is still not an adequate record
of what female artists do. It's still tokenism," she begins. In
addition, Kahlo argues that as museums have become more
corporatized, the situation facing women has beco