Katy Hessel

Hot on the heels of the publication of her book The Story of Art Without Men , author, podcaster, and curator Katy Hessel joins Marc Spiegler to discuss all things women and art. Her focus on the gender gap in art began in 2015, when she visited a fair with no women artists represented. From there, she launched an Instagram account (@thegreatwomenartists), a podcast, and now a book. Here, she broaches everything from forgotten Renaissance masters like Sofonisba Anguissola to the controversy surrounding the creation of the readymade: Did Marcel Duchamp make the Urinal or was it, in fact, made by his contemporary Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven? “What I’m trying to do,” she says, “is turn upside-down what we’ve known as art history.”

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Katy Hessel is an episode from Intersections: The Art Basel Podcast by Jeni Fulton.

This episode is 00:34:11 long.

This episode was published on Sep 20, 2022.

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