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A handbook of new curatorial strategies based on pioneering examples of curators working to offset racial and gender disparities in the art worldCurrent art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this year's Venice Biennale artists were female; only fourteen percent of the work displayed at MoMA in 2016 was by nonwhite artists; only a third of artists represented by U.S. galleries are female, but over two-thirds of students enrolled in art and art-history programs are young women.Arranged in thematic sections focusing on feminism, race, and sexuality, Curatorial Activism examines and illustrates pioneering examples of exhibitions that have broken down boundaries and demonstrated that new approaches are possible, from Linda Nochlin's "Women Artists" at LACMA in the mid-1970s to Jean-Hubert Martin's "Carambolages" in 2016 at the Grand Palais in Paris.
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Maura Reilly is a curator and arts writer based in New York. As the founding curator of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, she launched the first exhibition and public programming space in the USA devoted entirely to feminist art, where she organized multiple exhibitions, including the permanent installation of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party and the blockbuster Global Feminisms (co-curated with Linda Nochlin.) Reilly has authored and edited many books and articles on contemporary art, including Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader (Thames & Hudson, 2015) , Richard Bell: Uz v. Them (D. Giles, 2011) , and others. In 2015 Reilly was voted one of the 50 most influential people in the art world by both Blouin Art Info and Art Auction. She received her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. For more information, visit: www.maurareilly.com.
