Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

Seems like such a disparate irony.

[seabeyond]

1. YES. lol, i read about this not long ago. yes, and absolutely. women well know their roles.

thanks for this.

[ismnotwasm]

2. Oh the history of nudes--there's a topic

There's a free ebook on that you know at least from Apple. It's more about art than the fact the majority of naked is women

[seabeyond]

4. i actually have read on this. there was a time when it was only male nudity.

in the 1800's turned to women and the male nudity went into private and is no longer seen.

[ismnotwasm]

6. That's pretty interesting

I wonder why? I could speculate.

[seabeyond]

14. during greek time, male nudity was very much in and female nudity wasnt allowed so much.

after that, it was easier to get male models than female.

it was a very good article. i cannot find it. tried last night, then again this morning while not so tired, and didnt find the article i read. i read it during the "porn" from the little figurine of a woman, from so long ago, proving we always did porn.

what i do remember reading is prior, the art was so much not about sexuality, but stood more along the lines of medical anatomy, or doing in greek time. not presenting form. heroes, battle, ect...

[Squinch]

3. I wore a coat once, and no one said anything.

[seabeyond]

5. cute. lol. nt

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. So...

...you're here all week?

Try the fish?

[Squinch]

8. LOL!!!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

9. And...

...I'm here all week.

[DonCoquixote]

10. not sure of the met

But I think there might simply be an issue since, with notable exceptions like Elizabeth Vigee, female art was not encouraged before the 1800's. That being said...if the met does not feature names like a frida Khalo, Georgia O Keffe, Tamara de Lempedcke, then they may be lacking.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

13. I can't actually say...

...as I haven't been there in many years. I like O'Keffe. I was also privileged, as she was, to spend a few weeks on beautiful Lake George.

Thanks, I'll be looking up the others.

[niyad]

11. have you been to the national museum of women in the arts?

http://www.nmwa.org/


Our History

The idea for the National Museum of Women in the Arts grew from a simple, obvious, but rarely asked question: Where are all the women artists?

NMWA’s founders, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay and Wallace F. Holladay, began collecting art in the 1960s, just as scholars and art historians were beginning to discuss the underrepresentation of women and various racial and ethnic groups in museum collections and major art exhibitions. Among the first to apply this revisionist approach to collecting, the Holladays committed themselves for over 20 years to assembling art by women. By 1980, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay began to devote her energies and resources to creating a museum that would showcase women artists, and the Holladay Collection became the core of the institution’s permanent collection.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts was incorporated in November 1981 as a private, non-profit museum. During its first five years, NMWA operated from temporary offices with docent-led tours of the collection at the Holladay residence. Special exhibitions also were presented. In 1983, the museum purchased a 78,810-square-foot Washington landmark near the White House, formerly a Masonic Temple, and refurbished it in accordance with the highest design, museum, and security standards. It won numerous architectural awards.

In the spring of 1987, NMWA opened the doors of its permanent location with the inaugural exhibition, American Women Artists, 1830-1930, a definitive survey curated by one of the country’s foremost feminist art historians, Dr. Eleanor Tufts.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

12. No I haven't.

I haven't visited DC in quite awhile.

Thanks for the info and link.