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Historically, women artists have been all but invisible in museums in Portugal and around the world. We use the motif of the ‘invisibility cloak’, that we take on loan from J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter, to think about what has shrouded... more
Historically, women artists have been all but invisible in museums in Portugal and around the world. We use the motif of the ‘invisibility cloak’, that we take on loan from J.K.Rowling’s Harry Potter, to think about what has shrouded women’s creativity, artworks and stories to make it feel like they never existed, and thus are always perceived as natural outsiders in a world of men. The questions we take up in this chapter are: How widespread is this invisibility today? Is this invisibility still taken as normative in contemporary art museums? If this is still the case in contemporary art museums, what are the pedagogical implications?