For centuries, women were also prohibited from studying nudes — a foundational aspect of Western art. But Velasco — who by all accounts has been sympathetic to female writers and critics — released a statement to The Times through a publicist: “The art world is misogynist. Hebron has also been watching how those numbers play out on the media front, particularly in Artforum, the most prestigious of the art magazine bunch. Like a mirror to the art world it serves, Artforum has an embedded gender inequity. And there have been many years in which no women have made the cover at all — most recently in 2001.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 01, 2017 09:56 UTC