The Uffizi Galleries in Florence will open an exhibition on March 8 until April 30 to coincide with International Women’s Day. Aptly so, it will feature more relevant works from female artists in an effort to address the gender imbalance in the art world which has been around for quite a while. The initiative will be a long-term effort together with other galleries and organizations. In fact, just two weeks after their exhibition, the Pitti Palace (a sister museum of Uffizi) will showcase self-portraits by Maria Lassnig, a late Austrian feminist and artist. The two museums will be the primary headers for an “open-ended” series of female-centric exhibitions which will focus on artworks from the past and present. This series is projected to become an annual celebration.
The initiative has been in part an answer to the conversation the museums’ director had with the US group Guerrilla Girls, an activist collective who have been fighting for the past three decades – challenging inequality in the art world.
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