Where Are The Great Women Artists?

Back in 1971, art historian Linda Nochlin published an influential essay titled “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” “It was a provocative, lengthy, and wide-ranging examination of women’s status, past and present, which commenced with the author’s “open-minded wonderment that women, despite so many years of near-equality . . . have still not achieved anything of exceptional significance in the visual arts.” Now – 30 years later – “how many of Nochlin’s observations remain valid and how have they influenced the discourse on art in the academy, in the museums, and in the marketplace?”