If the art world is so “vast and varied”, as the subheading on your article says (Art unlocked, 13 April), why were 10 male artists and only three women artists featured? Why, yet again, are we being asked to consider masterworks, “old and new”, which reflect a not-so-varied, male-dominated canon?
It’s 2024, Katy Hessel has written The Story of Art Without Men (to prove female artists have always existed – not just in contemporary times) and in the UK, the Women in Revolt! exhibition has just finished at Tate Britain; Yoko Ono’s retrospective is on show at Tate Modern; Monica Sjöö was recently celebrated at Modern Art Oxford, and Shirley Craven’s textile exhibition has opened at Manchester’s Whitworth gallery. So there is some hope that we are, in the words of Phoebe Hoban, “finally infiltrating”.
