At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition titled “Women Take the Floor” is meant literally. Pulled from the museum’s holdings, more than 200 works by American women populate a wing on the museum’s third level, where seven galleries each contain one of the following themes: landscape artists, designers, fiber artists, abstract artists, portrait artists, printmakers, and action painters. Reappraisal of the canon continues. —E.C.

Women Take the Floor was featured in the January 18, 2020 issue of Air Mail. Read on