Art Quote of the Day

Sunday, July 20, 2014

What's up with the blatant sexism in gallery representation?

Looks like not even the art world is free from pervasive underpayment and under-appreciation of women in the workforce.

Hebron says that when she was in Miami last December for the art fairs, she spoke to about 200 galleries about the issue in person. "The responses were really interesting," she recalls. "Most of the time they claimed they didn't know what their gender ratio was. Or they would say things like, 'We have mostly men, but our most important artist is a female.' Someone else told me that they didn't want to add women artists just to fill a quota." The most creative response, she says, came from a Swiss gallery: "They said to me, 'We don't have very many women, but we have a gay artist. Does that count?' I couldn't believe it."

Friday, July 18, 2014

Fergie's Beer Garden supports the Arts. Drink up!

Always willing to try something different in his role of arts-patron-masquerading-as-a-pub-owner, Fergus Carey has opened a beer garden next to Fergie's Pub that creates a new pipeline of support for local theater company BRAT Productions. Never has supporting the arts tasted so good!