Intelligence Squared Debate: With the amazing Yana Peel, Amelie von Wedel and Mimi Brown who prove the Art World is NOT a Boys' Club!

Historically, the creation of art has been largely the preserve of men. And not a lot has changed. In recent years, the top 100 highest grossing living artists at auction were men, selling predominantly to male buyers. Women run just a quarter of the biggest art museums in the world, earning about a third less than their male counterparts. Yet while gender imbalance remains a fact, things have improved quite dramatically for women in the art world, especially when compared to the business world and its glass ceilings. From Middle Eastern sheikhas to American museum directors, from Korean gallerists to Japanese conceptual artists, the trajectory is up, not down, which is what really matters.

So is the art world a bastion of male privilege and prejudice, or an evolving arena where women are continually breaking the mould? 

With the amazing Yana Peel, Mimi Brown and Amelie von Wedel who prove the art world isn't a boys' club!

For more discussion on the topic, please go to http://www.artnews.com/2015/03/16/hong-kong-audience-decides-art-world-i...

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