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The art world’s female revolution

by Alexandra DEL PERAL / Sandra BIFFOT-LACUT Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) — It was a relatively promising start for gender equality when London’s Royal Academy of Arts was set up in 1768, with two women artists included among its 40 founding members. But that was a false dawn — it would not be until the 1930s that another woman was elected a full member of the Academy. While a few big names — […]