Excluding men and showing only women is a revolutionary gesture of affirmative action. But the museum is avant-garde. It’s part of the Centre Pompidou culture to do things differently. And we like a lot of drama. This is going to be dramatic in a big way.
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“elles@centrepompidou” promises to be an incredible exhibtion. The article speakes to the fantastic “WACK!” exhibition organized by LACMA that I had the opportunity to see in its original downtown location before it moved onto Brooklyn (etc. etc. etc.)
This exhibition sounds like an incredible next step in terms of identifying the value of women’s contribution to the history of art - by pulling from the extensive permanent colleciton of the Centre and purposely omitting men’s contribution to art history.
I wonder how different the story of art would be if it were taught with women as the primary act and men as the after thought?
At Paris’ Pompidou Center, the year of the women - Los Angeles Times
