#metoo

Talk of the Booker Winning-novel as ‘baffling’ and ‘tough’ suggests such journalists may be more trained in the Burns-ian method than they think

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‘Personal questions, which might not be asked to a man, are often asked of a woman’

‘I learned to be unapologetically confident and decisive, which has proved vital not just in the arts, but everywhere’

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On Instagram, the curator affirmed her support for the #MeToo movement, in response to the Kavanaugh allegations

‘The biggest hurdle we had to overcome was psychological: the belief that there never had been, and never could be, great women artists’

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‘I have invested a lot of energy promoting women artists’

‘I felt that I had to pretend my son didn’t exist; in order to be professional, it felt necessary to mimic the behaviour of men’

A survey of 1,745 artists reveals how job precarity, sexual abuse and gender disparities are rife in the city’s famous art scene

‘We need more advocates across gender lines and emphatic leaders in museums and galleries to create inclusive, supportive and generative spaces’

Poland’s feminist ‘Bison Ladies’ storm the Japanese artist’s Warsaw exhibition in solidarity with longtime model Kaori’s allegations of bullying

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Nikki Columbus claims that the museum rescinded the offer to be their curator of performance on discovering she was a new mother

‘Women’s salaries are less than men’s, even though they occupy the same jobs’

From shows exploring transgender issues to work featuring politicians prancing with toilet bowls, much has changed in the Uruguayan capital 

‘The way I see it, the #metoo movement is as much about bringing down certain figures as it is about reconsidering how law is exercised’

With her retrospective at Manchester Art Gallery, the artist and curator talks censorship, stereotypes and dismantling power in the age of #metoo

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