The art world’s female revolutionWoman artists are finally getting the recognition they deserve at the world’s top art museums, though non-Western artists are still under-represented. AFP, PARISIt was a relatively promising start for gender equality when London’s Royal Academy of Arts was set up in 1768, with two women artists included among its 40 founding members. “With each rehang at each of Tate’s four galleries, the gender balance improves,” said Polly Staple, head of Tate’s British Art collection. But with women increasingly welcomed into art courses from the late 20th century onwards, the tide is turning here, too. Women artists, such as Italy’s Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) or Flemish painter Clara Peeters, were “known during their lifetime but have been erased over the centuries”, she said.
