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The museum is planning a series of initiatives centered on female artists set to open next year, reports the New York Times. Four years ago it began putting together a 500-page book, Women Artists in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, that includes 50 essays from curators and scholars. A series of exhibitions is also scheduled for next year, including "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present'" opening in March of 2010. The following month the photography department plans to feature only female artists in its collection galleries. And the architecture and design department will show the Frankfurt Kitchen, created by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. There will also be works by experimental female filmmakers.

The Brooklyn Museum seems to be a few steps ahead of MoMA, having launched in 2007 its Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art to showcases feminist artists and raise awareness of their cultural contributions. The center’s focal point is The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago.