Acquire exclusively works by women in 2020. This is the bet of the Baltimore Museum of Art to remedy the imbalance between the number of works by male and female artists exhibited in museums. According to a study published in 2019, in 18 American museums, 87% of the artists exhibited are men. And indeed, among the 95,000 objects exhibited in the Baltimore Museum of Art located in the state of Maryland, only 4% are the work of women.
Highlight women and their works
The Baltimore Museum of Art has therefore committed to spending more than $ 2.5 million in 2020 to acquire works by female artists. The museum will also reorganize several of its galleries in order to enhance the value of women and their works, and intends to organize around twenty exhibitions of women artists.
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The works of men that the museum will obtain this year will therefore come from donations. A decision all the more symbolic since the United States is celebrating this year the 100th anniversary of the right to vote for women, obtained in 1920 after the ratification of the 19th amendment.