Sentences with phrase «white male artists»

Many observers have pointed out that Western art galleries and museums have long shown and collected many more white male artists than people of color or women.

There were financial constraints: white male artists sold and rents had to be paid.

How is it considered falling short that the majority of solo shows lean towards white male artists?

The Baltimore Museum of Art announced on Friday that it will deaccession seven works by white male artists, including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Franz Kline, to make room for works by contemporary female artists and artists of color, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Even worse, only nine of the 103 artists were black, with the further caveat that one of those was the fictional character Donelle Woolford, a creation of white male artist Joe Scanlan.

A recent reevaluation of Pop art that goes beyond the largely Anglo - American, white male artists with whom it has historically been associated.

Speaking of dicks, black female artist Donelle Woolford is actually «the creation» of white male artist Joe Scanlan.)

Calculated to stand out from the several dozen white male artists at the Biennial (and in every other high - profile show and job applicant pool), Scanlan uses «Woolford» to usurp the visibility accrued to minority artists in the contemporary art spotlight by the fact of their relative absence.

It got us talking about who is in charge, not just in terms of white male artists over black female ones, but in the makeup of the very institutions that commission and display work.

Not long afterward, from 1949 to 1955, a group of predominantly white male artists in New York called The Club met several nights a week at a community space on Eighth Street to discuss important concepts such as Zen.

«I just hope he really broadens his eye towards not just white male artists,» Kinney says, «Come on, look, we're in Los Angeles.»

Nor does she challenge the mythic great white male artist on his own terms, as might black abstract artists or Gary Simmons.

They are printed with bawdy tales involving a character named Richard and elegant scribbles in the style of market - hot white male artists like Richard Prince (whose own «Joke» paintings can sell for seven figures), Christopher Wool, Michael Krebber and Albert Oehlen.

While it may be easy to paint the «creative differences» between Vergne and Molesworth as one of the director favoring blue - chip white male artists, and the curator wanting to create a more inclusive platform for women and artists of color, what can be said about the urged retirement of the long - term senior curator of color, who had been doing that work all along?»

A fictional artist, a 30 - something - year - old well - educated black lesbian artist from Georgia (now from Detroit) who is actually a 53 - year - old white male artist, was one of the only nine participating black artists / groups in the Whitney Biennial (whose totally contributors numbered more than 100)?

A second transformative event in 1979 was Pindell's outraged response to a show at Artists Space, New York, in which a young, white male artist presented what he called «The Nigger Drawings.»

«I think it's just the same group of people — the director, the board, even Helen, supporting the same white male artists, and diversity is a token there,» Mukherjee said.

When Mark Grotjahn relinquished a prestigious artist award and acknowledged that the prize had been bestowed upon too many white male artists before him, many were startled.

The western art canon is in no small part a parade of famous female nudes, from Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Knidos from the fourth century B.C. to Manet's 19th - century prostitutes (notably the recumbent, unamused Olympia) to John Currin's Playboy - meets - Fragonard women — and almost all of them have been made by white male artists.

Drexler's latest revival, along with such exhibitions as the Brooklyn Museum's 2010 show «Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958 — 1968» and last year's «International Pop» at the Walker Art Center (both of which included her work), is part of a recent reevaluation of Pop art that goes beyond the largely Anglo - American, white male artists with whom it has historically been associated.

Some observers see Molesworth's ouster as symptomatic of a struggle between her progressive ideals and the status quo, epitomized by Vergne who curated three shows of white male artists — Carl Andre, Matthew Barney, and Doug Aitken — since arriving.

For the first time in Grammy history, no white male artists are nominated for Album of the Year.

I think it is very different for a white male artist, one who already has a profile, but who quietly sets out to reinvent his work, take what he has done and push it to another place.

Local art collector Adrienne Davis said Thomas» images of black women stand in stark contrast to those of Kelley Walker, a white male artist whose Sept. 2016 exhibition outraged many visitors.

The impulse to control art in order to reclaim one's history is only natural, as with protests against a white male artist's fiction of a black woman in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

Researching the impact of race, I found that white male artists are free to incorporate any image....

In the context of this book, and of the time, the word «artist» meant «male artist,» and predominantly «white male artist.»

This shift reflects a new emphasis on correcting the blind spots and biases of the past; the purported universality of the white male artist's perspective is no longer a given, but is now seen as a form of oppressive hegemony, obscuring the contributions and innovations of women, people of color, and artists working outside Western art - world centers.

However, the institution actually marginalized their presence by positioning the work — by around 25 Black women artists — in the corridor and reserving the two main exhibition spaces for solo exhibitions of two white male artists.

Ms. Strobert, given her academic pedigree that also includes Cooper Union, is far from an outsider when it comes to the art world, but as an African - American woman working in the vein of Abstraction, she is keenly aware that she's treading on turf that has been historically monopolized by white male artists.

Not only as a white male artist, but as a human being.

In terms of solo shows, between 2000 - 2004, 90 % of the solo shows at the Met were white male artists.

After the searing experience of watching curators at Tate Modern refuse to «privilege» masterpieces by white male artists, it's a relief to see large - scale exhibition pictures by Reynolds and David Bomberg accorded the respect they deserve.

«Using irresponsible generalities, Johnson compares women and African - American artists to white male artists, only to find them lacking.»

When I read about the Yams Collective's decision to withdraw from the Whitney Biennial, I was reminded of the 1979 protests about the N * gg * r Drawings exhibition at Artists Space, which, despite the incendiary title, was an assembly of abstract charcoal drawings by the white male artist Donald Newman.

Let's just decapitate the white male artists and dealers who believe this and be done with it.

The Donelle Woolford affair is not the first time that the art world has been shaken up by controversy over a white male artist's decision to «play with race.»

We know this is not the most likely moment for a white male artist to be foregrounded.

Kenneth Clark's fabled 1969 «Civilisation,» inspiration for the current TV project, was limited to European art, with an occasional nod to the United States, and looked almost exclusively at white male artists, architects and writers.

Alma Thomas was a Black female artist who depicted the light around her through her art, even as it was dimmed by the shadow of dominance by white male artists.

It also pairs assemblage works by a white male artist with a black female one.

Q. Do you really want to rewrite art history and cancel out all the white male artists we know and love?

The dust - up reflected a similar distinction between Vergne's high - profile exhibitions for two white male artists and Molesworth's for an African American male artist and a Latin American female artist.

Its humor is balanced by the knowledge that these white male artists are continually recognized as being at the forefront of serious art production, leaving little room for consideration of the significant contributions of female artists and artists of color to the discussion of advanced aesthetics.