Museums Without Men: audio guides to celebrate dozens of female artists

This article was first published by the Guardian.

Five big museums, including Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, are launching audio guides dedicated to underserved female artists in their collection during Women’s History Month.

Museums Without Men, devised by the Guardian art critic Katy Hessel, will showcase dozens of female and gender non-conforming artists who at present are often in the shadow of their male contemporaries.

“I’ve always gone to museums and hunted out female artists,” said Hessel, who was shocked at how few female artists were on the walls and is the author of the Story of Art Without Men.

She would notice that the female artists who were on display in museums always had labels next to their work that mentioned male artists they had worked with or were inspired by to contextualise them.

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