Only 16% of the most recent Venice Biennale artists were female. A mere 14% of MoMA's 2016
display is by non-white artists. Only one third of artists represented by US galleries are
female but over two-thirds of the enrolment in art and art-history programmes is young
women... The fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over. Indeed the
more closely one examines the numbers the more glaring it becomes that white Euro-American
heterosexual privileged and above all male artists continue to dominate the art world.
Arranged in thematic sections focusing on feminism race and sexuality this book examines and
illustrates pioneering examples of exhibitions that have broken down boundaries and
demonstrated that new approaches are possible from Nochlin's 'Women Artists' at the LACMA in
the mid-1970s to Martin's 'Carambolages' in 2016 at the Grand Palais in Paris. By exposing both
the disparities and inclusive solutions the author addresses the urgent need in the
contemporary art world for curatorial strategies that provide alternatives to exclusionary
models of collecting and display. In so doing she provides an invaluable source of information
for current thinkers and in a world dominated by visual culture a vital source of inspiration
for today's ever-expanding new generation of curators.
