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>News: MoMA Announces 2015 Focus on Women Artists
>by ArtSlant Team
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>MoMA Plans Only Female Art for 2015
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>An Archive as Impetus performance in MoMA¹s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby,
>2013, where artist Xaviera Simmons read a list of demands, including to
>"erase sexism at MoMA" clearly made an impression on the Museum
>leadership. Photograph courtesy of Xaviera Simmons.
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>To mark the 30 year anniversary of the first Guerrilla Girls protest at
>MoMA, Director Glenn D. Lowry announced yesterday plans to give the
>museum over exclusively to women artists for the entire year of 2015. Ann
>Temkin, curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, when reached for
>comment said, "Though devoting one year to the works of women artists
>will in no way make up for MoMA's historically unequal representation,
>we're hoping that this unprecedented gesture will be an eye-opener to
>institutions everywhere. This is why we're not only presenting temporary
>exhibitions featuring only women artists, but changing out the permanent
>collection as well, which has been a real challenge." MoMA's 4th and 5th
>floors of chronologically organized modern and contemporary works will be
>completely changed out to highlight the Museum's collection of women
>artists, which represents about 13% of their painting and sculpture
>departments. "Finding a way to tell the history of art through only women
>artists is a formidable exercise," Temkin remarked.
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>Major challenges will include moving José Clemente Orozco's 9 foot tall,
>18 foot wide portable frescoDive Bomber and Tank (1940), which weighs
>nearly 3 tons, from the 5th floor entrance, to be replaced by a more
>diminutive Frida Kahlo painting. Plans are in motion for a retrospective
>of Faith Ringgold, an exhibition of 20th century painting, including Lee
>Bontecou, Hilma af Klint, Lee Krasner, Agnes Martin and others, and an
>expansive show of female photographers from Julia Margaret Cameron to
>contemporary artists like Rineke Dijkstra.
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