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In light of George Baselitz recent remarks about “women painters” in GalleristNY and the unyielding response to New York Times critic Ken Johnson’s preview of the exhibition The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World and Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 it’s clear that prejudice is still alive and kicking. So on Sunday, February 10, 4-6 p.m the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will host a free Public Forum on Gender and Race in Contemporary Art. |
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Alice Neel, Claudia Bach Pregnant, 1975. Oil on canvas; 32 x 45 7/8 inches
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
Oh No He Didn’t: Race, Gender and Contemporary Art at PAFA
In light of George Baselitz recent remarks about “women painters” in GalleristNY and the unyielding response to New York Times critic Ken Johnson’s preview of the exhibition The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World and Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 it’s clear that prejudice is still alive and kicking. So on Sunday, February 10, 4-6 p.m the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will host a free Public Forum on Gender and Race in Contemporary Art. PAFA’s forum brings together members of the art community and the public for a lively debate around the following questions: What role does identity politics play in the contemporary art world? How do gender and race play into the art we make, the art we collect and exhibit, and the way we talk about the merits of a work of art?
Hung Liu, Visage II, 2004. Oil on canvas; 51 1/2 x 48 in. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter, 2011
PAFA’s President and CEO, David R. Brigham reflects “This public discussion demonstrates the continuing importance of the arts as a means of exploring fundamental cultural issues in America—in this case, the ongoing and evolving roles of gender and race.”
Panelists: Ken Johnson, New York Times Art Critic; Kimberly Brooks, Artist and Huffington Post Art Editor; Njideka Akunyili, Artist; and Joyce Kozloff, Artist. University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of American Art, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, moderates the forum.
Details: Sunday, February 10, 4-6 p.m., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building, located at 128 North Broad Street, Philadelphia.
