
The old Guerrilla Girls question, “Do women have to be naked to get in the Met. Museum?” comes to mind as Jerry Saltz challenges MoMA to explain why only 4% of the work on its 4th and 5th floors is by women artists. Exactly 20 years ago (after a “weenie count”), the Guerrilla Girls observed that only 5% of the art in the Modern art galleries at the Met was by women, though 85% of the nudes were female. Did anyone imagine progress would be so slow–or that we would actually regress?
