Women in the Arts

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‘At the moment it is fashionable to show female artists; we have to make the most of it’

‘Others my age with lesser work who were men were being celebrated and collected’

BY Lynn Hershman Leeson |

‘If you’re a woman you learn to live with a certain level of discomfort’

BY Julia Peyton-Jones |

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

BY Almine Rech |

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

BY Touria El Glaoui |

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

BY Mary Kelly |

‘No one is born a feminist but, if nothing else makes us so beforehand, our working environments will’

BY Patrizia Dander |

‘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’

BY Caroline Douglas |

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

BY Charlotte Day |

‘When I opened Monika Sprüth Galerie, only very few German gallerists represented women artists’

BY Pablo Larios |

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

BY Rhona Hoffman |

‘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’

BY Anda Rottenberg |

‘At last there is a communal mechanism for women to call a halt to the demeaning conventions of machismo’

BY Iwona Blazwick |

‘Coping as a woman in France is a daily battle: the aggression can be subtle, and you always have to push harder to make yourself heard’

BY Sandra Patron |

‘Women's role in shaping the history of contemporary art is being reappraised’

BY Julieta González |

‘I hope that, in time, the pendulum settles in a place where male behaviour has shifted and women feel comfortable, respected and empowered’

BY Liza Essers |

An early painting by the Japanese artist has been estimated at USD$7–10 million ahead of a Sotheby’s sale in New York

‘I could be the President of the United States, and still half the people in the room would question my authority’

BY Anicka Yi |