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Can You Name #5WomenArtists?
Think of an artist. If the first artist to come to mind was a man — read on. For the second year, the Jewish Museum is excited to participate in the social media campaign #5WomenArtists led by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC to celebrate Women’s History Month. With more than arts institutions worldwide, the initiative seeks to draw attention to gender disparity in the art world throughout the month of March by increasing awareness of women artists. Although 51% of visual artists today are women and MFA programs are 65–75% female, work by women artists makes up only 3–5% of major permanent collections in the U.S. and Europe. Last year when I asked a friend to name 5 artists off the top of his head he named ALL men. To combat the general lack of awareness about women artists here are just five of my favorite women artists who made a mark this year at the Jewish Museum and a list of the women who have exhibited since
Deborah Kass
Last month, the Jewish Museum’s 31st Annual Purim Ball honored Jewish Museum collection artist Deborah Kass for her outstanding artistic achievements. Her painting Subject Matters will be on view in our new collection exhibition Scenes from the Collection, coming this alternative self-portr
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Oral history audience with Fred Fenster, Honorable
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One Man, One War, One Hundred Years
One Man, One War, One Hundred Years
September 15, December 30,
Urbandale, Iowa artist Michael Wilson was inspired to create this body of work after finding World War I pictures and memorabilia of his beloved great-uncle Herb Thordsen, who served as a machine-gunner in the st Machine Gun Battalion. Timed to celebrate the th anniversary of the November 11th, armistice (the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”), One distills the Great War down to the level of one man and the history he shared with his young great-nephew.
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