Comment on the efforts taken at Harvard art museums to address the racism and sexism inherent in the history of art.

1.To complete this Journal assignment, you’ll need to read the article titled “On the Walls at Harvard museums, they’re calling out art’s racist and sexist history” (Boston Globe, 2019). To access the article, you may click here or copy and paste the following URL into your browser: https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2019/08/31/walls-harvard-museums-calling-out-art-racist-sexist-history/Y2fzr4SltFdBsD8oxrJiNP/story.html?s_campaign=8315/. You’ll also need to respond to all the following prompts. (Remember that you will need to click on the “Create Journal Entry” link to submit your work.)

Comment on the efforts taken at Harvard art museums to address the racism and sexism inherent in the history of art. Are such efforts necessary for a thematic exhibition (as opposed to one focusing on a nationality or period of art)? Be specific and cite examples to support your responses.

2.Write an introduction on the theme of “art of feminism” mock online exhibition, briefly describe the following artworks. explain briefly why you selected each work. How do the works relate to and/or support your topic? Given your theme, do you think you might want to utilize some of Harvard’s tactics (i.e., pairing historical and contemporary works or including missing history in descriptions) in your mock exhibit? Can you imagine what other kinds of works you might like to add to the exhibit?

– John Vanderlyn: Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos, 1809–14.

– Lilly Martin Spencer: Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the ’Lasses, 1856.

– Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, “Odalisque,” 1839-40

– Kenyon Cox: Eclogue, 1890

– Alice Barber Stephens: A Spring Morning in the Park, 1892

– Mary Cassatt: Mother and Child, c. 1905

Hi, so this journal is like an outline towards the final paper. Our professor assigns us to write journals to be step by step guiding us towards the final project. Which is a mock online exhibition that we need to use artworks have been produced in North America before 1939, the artworks can be both found online and textbook. The artworks that I listed are pretty suitable for the topic of “art of feminism” which is both female artists and artworks of female.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2019/08/31/walls-harvard-museums-calling-out-art-racist-sexist-history/Y2fzr4SltFdBsD8oxrJiNP/story.html?s_campaign=8315/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2019/08/31/walls-harvard-museums-calling-out-art-racist-sexist-history/Y2fzr4SltFdBsD8oxrJiNP/story.html?s_campaign=8315

here’s the textbook readings for some of the artworks

you can use the artworks on these textbook pages or from the list