the New Museum (NY) has feminist roots

Marcia Tucker was the person behind the renowned contemporary art museum - The New museum in NYC. As one of the first female art museum directors, she also influenced several generations of women in the field. Role models for women were scarce when Marcia started, and here was this outspoken feminist who had invented her own museum! Today, more than a third of art museum directors are women, but when Marcia joined the Association of Art Museum Directors Tin 1986, it was a boys' club, and she was an agitator

source:agLisa Phillips on Marcia Tucker. ·i·ta·tor
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1. One who agitates, especially one who engages in politiche Association of Art Museum Directors is an organization of art museums in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. External links

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2. An apparatus that shakes or stirs, as in a washing machine.

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