Baltimore Museum of Art to invest $2.5 million throughout 2020 on works by women in a bid to tackle gender gap
Baltimore Museum of Art employee Cynthia McCown, left, helps hang banners outside the museum in Baltimore, Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, announcing the museum's decision to stop charging admission beginning Oct. 1.
"I think it's a radical and timely decision in 2020, to take the bull by the horns and do this," the museum's director Christopher Bedford told AFP. A study published last year by the scientific journal Plos-One found that in 18 major American museums, 87 per cent of the artists whose works were on exhibit were men.
Teri Henderson, a curator based in Baltimore, said she questions the museum's use of the word "radical" to describe its decision to acquire only art by women for a year.
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