Articles
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What Does It Mean to Be a Professional Artist?
Artists and writers often face a major reality check when they leave the confines of academia. It can be a sobering experience to question whether you have the commitment it takes to pursue a career in the creative world. This time can be particularly tough on women, who, as it turns out, represent the majority of…
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Pen + Brush Changes its Space and Program
Pen + Brush is an organization that has been dedicated to women in the arts since 1894. They have recently acquired a new space in the Flatiron District that will be opening later this year, which also happens to be the 120th anniversary of the organization. With all of these great new changes, we thought we would check…
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Women: A Year in Review, From the Arts and Beyond
The appointment of Marjorie Scardino as the first female board member of Twitter resonates on so many levels — sparking, for me, a year-end look-back at how women fared in 2013. At Pen and Brush, we obviously focus keenly on the status of women in the visual and literary arts. But art is almost always a reflection of the…
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From The Boardroom to the Gallery, Women Shut Out
Nicholas D. Kristof wrote in his recent New York Times “Twitter, Women and Power”, that, on the eve of Twitter’s IPO, it has become abundantly clear that the organization’s board suffers from a huge gender imbalance. Not a single woman sits on Twitter’s board — an all too familiar trend, as Kristof points out, as women comprise…
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Women Are in the News
Featured on page 7 of the fall season issue of Art of The Times.
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The Past and Present Reality of Inequality for Women Artists is Being Considered Around the World
The past and present reality of inequality for women artists is being considered around the world: Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology, a groundbreaking book from 1982 offering a radical critique of Art History’s sexism, was re-issued this month with a new preface that questions how much has really changed for women artists over the…
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Facebook’s New Policy Erases the Ads, Not the Hate, Critics Say
Facebook is changing its review process to protect brands from having their advertising placed next to violent, sexual, or otherwise objectionable content, but critics say that the policy does not go far enough to remove the content altogether. Starting Monday, Facebook will implement a new review policy for deciding which Pages and groups will be eligible to have advertising appear…
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Towards Gender Parity: Quality and Fairness in the Art Market
In January of this year, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation staged a lively panel discussion on the enduring disenfranchisement of women in the art market, moderated by the foundation’s director, Quang Bao. In response to Bao’s essay accompanying the podcast of the panel here at artcritical, Janice Sands offers her perspective on gender parity as…
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‘Pen and Brush’: Female Artist Nonprofit Director Janice Sands Talks Women and Art
We love few things in this world more than supporting creative women — speaking of, have you checked out our Female Artist page lately? So our hearts really skipped a beat when we first heard of the non profit organization based in New York known as Pen and Brush. For the past 119 years, Pen and Brush has…
