Why do we still define female artists as wives, friends and muses?
When only 1% of the National Gallery’s collection is made up of art by women; ; when the 2022 report found that 11% of acquisitions and 14.9% of exhibitions at 31 US museums between 2008 and 2020 were of work by female-identifying artists (and 2.2% were of work by Black American artists), while the volume of acquisitions of work by women peaked in 2009; what does this say about the state of art today? The imbalance in art acts as a microcosm for the way
