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Blogger Gabby said...

Here here, Leah. I had an ongoing debate with a mature student in my curatorial studies class last year (which was all women) about why she thought we "young people" should be concerned that we were "losing men's voices" in the discipline since so few men were in our art history program (there are currently 3 out of 20). I tried to point out that every time you enter a gallery you see a half dozen men women staffing the gallery, running the front desk, programming educational activities, but that 90% of directors and curators are men. She didn't really ever come round on it, but I don't buy the "not enough men are interested in art history anymore" argument.

As Carol Zemel says at York, if the men are genuinely concerned about their lack of presence in the field, they should start a movement. That's what we did.

February 26, 2009 at 11:14 PM

Blogger Leah Sandals said...

That's an awesome comment Gabby. I'm with you on this one for sure.

February 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's quite the inane quote from the Director of our National Gallery. (Perhaps proving once again that in Canadian institutional circles one can only fail upwards.)

February 28, 2009 at 11:39 PM

Blogger Leah Sandals said...

Hey LM,

Yeah, it's weird, I think Marc's generally really with it, but then this happens.

Still it made me think about the issue, which has been taken up not only by him but by many of both genders.

All this really means to me is that
(a) women are getting a raw deal
and
(b) men are getting a different kind of raw deal -- albeit one that is not expressed in lower incomes or gender violence rates.

So if this is the case, what are we to do about it? I must admit income and violence victimization are two stats of prime interest to me, more so than that of student ratios.

March 2, 2009 at 5:05 PM

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