Gender Matters: A panel discussion informed by personal journeys to positions of leadership
The art world is not gender balanced. 70% of art museum curators are women, yet museum leadership retains a boy’s club reputation. None of the top three most visited art museums (The Louvre, The British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art) have had a female director, and only four of the directors of the top twenty-five museums are women. Because museums frame the world for us, sometimes literally, museum leadership determines whose art and what kinds of culture count.
The Courtauld Institute of Art educates the directors and curators of many cultural institutions world-wide. To galvanise its 70% female alumnae and all those committed to gender parity in the arts, in 2017-18 The Courtauld will host an events series featuring influential leaders addressing central questions of gender balance in arts leadership.