The 1975 art world: the women in it

Second part of a panel discussion entitled “The 1975 Art World: The Women in It”, held at New York University’s Loeb Student Center in conjunction with the Fine Arts Museum of the Women’s Interart Center as part of a series of special events to salute “1975: Women and Art”, on Wednesday, May 7th, 1975 at 7pm. Discussion is moderated by artist Alice Baber and the panel includes Howardena Pindell, artist and curator of prints at Museum of Modern Art; Isabel Bishop, artist; Mary Garrard, art historian at American University; and Judith Van Baron, director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. The panel solicits questions from the audience about the representation of women in museums and galleries (includes a question from Dorothy Gillespie). One audience member proposes that the event be called “International Year of the White Woman” due to lack of non-white representation on the panel and the panelists debate whether you can divorce larger political concerns from the artwork.