About Museums Without Men
Celebrated art historian Katy Hessel has launched an audio guide series highlighting the women and gender-nonconforming artists in the public collections of international museums. Museums Without Men is an ever-growing series that introduces museum visitors to underrepresented and often lesser-known artists, opening up collections to new and existing audiences who will be able to follow the audio stops while in the galleries or online. The series links public institutions globally, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Hepworth Wakefield, UK; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; and Tate Britain, London, to foreground the important work that museums and galleries do by collecting and displaying women and gender-nonconforming artists, whether historical or contemporary.
Transcript
[00:00:00] Hello everyone and welcome to Museums Without Men at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. My name is Katy Hessel. I am an art historian from London, and I’ve made it my mission in life to celebrate the work of women artists. You may know me from my Instagram and podcast called The Great Women Artists, or my book, The Story of Art Without Men.
Now, I want to tackle the gender imbalance in art museums by highlighting some of the best works by women and gender non conforming artists in permanent collections worldwide. This is an audio guide featuring collection works, and today we’re going to be looking at canvases that rework the Rococo, marionettes from the 1920s, paintings that distort our perspective, abstractions that reference ancient mythology, plus a whole lot more.
Let’s get going.
