Public Is To Art As It Is To Restrooms
By Mitch Berg
I’m informed that the National Museum of Women in the Arts has re-opened after $70,000,000 in renovations.
I think I missed the NMOWITA in my various sprints through the DC museum scene, but by all accounts it’s dedicated to art either created by, or created by intersectional classes favored by, entitled upper middle class white academic progressives…
…who are nevertheless “victims”:
“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 to a 2022 report, female-identifying artists made up only 11 percent of acquisitions at US museums between 2008 and 2020 (with Black female artists representing just .5 percent).
I’d like to ask Ms. Fisher Sterling to show her work – a walk through the Art Crawl and the Fringe Festival might make you think a supermajority of “artists” are women in some currenty-fashionable sense of the term.
And if the National Endowmen of the Arts is spending $70,000,000 to remodel a museum based on your “art”, you’re not oppressed.
Although…
…perhaps the critics could “oppress” you with an honest review.
It seems appropriate.
Government subsidy is the death of art.
October 19th, 2023 at 12:25 pm
Let me be the first to post a hateful, sexist, misogynistic, patriarchial, man-splainingly oppressive question, just to set the tone for everyone else.
What if women are different from men?
By that I mean, what if cis-women have a biological imperative to seek tasks which generate emotional rewards rather than financial rewards, and are more focused no the short-term than the long-term?
That would explain why many of the women who may be capable of doing math and engineering choose not enter those professions. They’re too sterile. They’re not as rewarding as, for instance, grade-school teacher. The emotional rewards of opening young minds are immediate and positive.
Creating art that nobody wants to buy is even worse: it’s a negative emotional return on hard work which may be so discouraging the artist quits and goes to work in a more rewarding field as, for instance, high-school art teacher, where the emotional rewards of opening young artists’ minds are immediate and positive.
Of course, we know from Our Betters that this entire theory is not only abject nonsense but hateful besides. Everyone knows men and women are not biologically different, that all apparent distinctions are merely cruel stereotypes imposed on helpless victims.
But it’s kind of fun to think about. What if . . . .
October 19th, 2023 at 1:16 pm
Bigman—Yes, women are different from men and this is coming from a woman (wait let me check my parts……..yep I’m a woman) but it really doesn’t matter what sex current painters and sculptors are, it’s all dreck. Have you been to the Guggenheim? What the hell????? So now there’s a museum dedicated to female dreck. If i ever get to DC won’t set foot inside that hot mess.
October 19th, 2023 at 2:40 pm
What is that? Intestines dangling from a chandelier or something?
October 19th, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Thought it was Dale Chihuly for a second, But then I realized it was made of used tampons
October 20th, 2023 at 9:45 am
Blade – the Chihuly you are looking for is at the Maker’s Mark distillery in Loretto, KY. It’s the ceiling of the last hallway before you enter the tasting room.
It’s full of symbolism – including cherubs representing the angel’s share!
October 20th, 2023 at 10:02 am
I detest these people and their ilks. Ick. What a crappy life to live. Go for it leftist freaks but stay far far away from me and mine.