SOUTH AFRICA: WITS ART MUSEUM FOCUSES ON A YEAR OF WOMEN

Representivity, inclusivity and accessibility can't be tick-box exercises if the world of art and museums has any hope of actual transformation and sustained relevance. Double digits are a milestone, also a moment for reflection. For the Wits Arts Museum (WAM) at 10 years, reckoning comes with questions about whose art gets seen, whose art is elevated to solo exhibition status and ultimately who and what controls the economics of art. For WAM's curators, the answers circle back to the reality that women and people in the queer community remain in the margins. Systemic sexism props up the status quo in the art world and keeps the balance of representation unequal. It's also a moment that brings into sharper focus that sustainability and evolving relevance for an art museum in 2022 needs reframing, too.