2021: Recalculating Women’s Worth

The Art and Craft of an economy rooted in #womenswork

As International Women’s Day 2021 comes to a close, it felt like a good time to share some stories of how things are going for women.

Art

“But as women grow as forces in the art world — as artists, dealers, curators, and museum directors — it’s clear that female collectors will be part of the change. Many of the collectors profiled below share a resolve to bring their private passion for art to a wider audience, taking art out of their living rooms and into the realm of public discourse.” ~ 7 Women Making the Art World More Diverse

The Economic [R]evolution Will Be Feminized

The resulting body of work became “The Kitchen Table Series” (1990), both a landmark in Weems’s career and in the lives of others. “I can’t tell you how many people I’ve met in the art world — artists, curators, dealers — that point to ‘The Kitchen Table Series’ as the one piece that made them know they wanted to be…in the arts,” said Elisabeth Sann, a director at Jack Shainman Gallery, which is currently exhibiting the series in an online viewing room.

Weems’s black-and-white photographs are like mirrors, each reflecting a collective experience: how selfhood shifts through passage of time; the sudden…