by Jon Lackman | 27 April 2006 | Modern, Museums
In the Guardian (via Arts Journal), we read that “Stockholm’s Moderna Museet recently asked the government for 50m kronor (£3.7m) to buy new works, exclusively by female artists, to redress the gender imbalance in its collection. ‘When it comes to masterpieces,’ Lars Nittve, the museum’s director, argued in the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter last week, ‘a sloppy prioritisation of male artists has been going on for decades so that the Moderna Museet’s collection consists of approximately 90% works by men and 10% by women. No one can say that this is a correct mirror of the world’s artistic talent – or indeed Sweden’s.’”
