While the galleries delight at the renovated National Museum of Women in the Arts, history still gets lost
Amy Sherald's 2009 "They Call Me Redbone, but I'd Rather Be Strawberry Shortcake" is among the most popular works at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, which is reopening after a two-year renovation. f you were going to pick a building to house a major museum of women’s art, the current location on New York Avenue would not likely be at the top of the list.
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Sterling has an answer. “When I envision the NMWA of the future, I have enough hubris to look at the Museum of Modern Art’s trajectory,” she says, invoking the behemoth institution in New York that in many ways invented modern art as a discipline. “It was the first museum for modern art, and even though many of the great museums now exhibit modern art, it is still seen as the flagship.”
For both those reasons, if the museum wants to be the leader in the field and continue the work of rediscovering and centering the art of women, it should reconsider the display of its permanent collection, which is one of the few disappointments of the reopening. They have followed the trend, which is deemed popular with audiences, of “thematic” display, mixing up genera, forgoing the usual categories of genera and media and dispensing with chronological display.
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