Gender Imbalance in Art Collections, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Three Sisters Rewired

Front Row · Dec 9, 2019 · 28m

Last month Baltimore Museum of Art announced that in 2020 it would only collect works of art by women, because in the last decade just 2% of global art auction spending was on work by women? At 26 major American museums just 11% of all acquisitions and 14% of exhibitions were by female artists. Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern. and arts journalist Julia Halperin join John Wilson to discuss why there is such a gender imbalance in art collections and what can be done to rectify this.In 2017, Britain’s oldest continuously working factory in the country, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, was…