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When visitors enter the National Museum of Women in the Arts—set to reopen this Saturday following roughly $70 million worth of renovations—they’ll find themselves standing beneath“It is glowing and twinkling in our entryway so that from the very first moment a visitor enters our reimagined museum, they will experience art,” Kathryn Wat, the museum’s deputy director for art, programs, and public engagement, said during a media preview of the now-finished museum, which had been closed since...
“While the discourse has progressed since the museum was founded, gender and intersectional racial inequality remain pervasive in the art world,” the museum’s director, Susan Fisher Sterling, said during the preview Tuesday. According tofemale-identifying artists made up only 11 percent of acquisitions at US museums between 2008 and 2020 .
is part of the theme “Heavyweight” inside the third-floor gallery. Photograph by Jennifer Hughes/NMWA. Challenging the notion that women create “dainty art,” one such theme, “Heavyweight,” pairs Deborah Butterfield’s life-size cast bronze horsewith Chakaia Booker’s hulking wall of shredded rubber tires. The artwork within another theme, “Land Marks,” reveals the varied ways women interact with the outdoors, while two other themes, “Seeing Red” and “No Shrinking Violet,” explore the way women artists use hues of red and violet, respectively.
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