Standard issue for all women.

Hello, Jen. Standard Issue for all women.

Hello, Jen here to tell you about today's Monday interview.

But before I do that, I'm going to tell you about what is coming up this week on standard issue.

Tomorrow you'll be hearing from Mick who's chatting to author Scarlet Thomas about

unreliable narrators are plenty and some twisty turny times in her new book The

Sleep Walkers. On Wednesday it's rated or dated and we didn't say we were going to

watch 1994's Gaslight. Are you mad? Where's my watch?

On Thursday, there's no Bush Telegraph this week because some of us are on our hollibobs and by some I mean me.

I'm off, but we've another cracking author for you on Friday as Hannah talks to Rosie Garland

about her retelling of mythological Greek legends the Fates.

But back to today.

Hot on the heels of its Women in Revolt Exhibition, Tate Britain is currently hosting another huge exhibition dedicated this time to professional women artists between 1520 and 1920 called Now You Seeus.

The exhibition puts paid to the notion that women couldn't

make a living from art and just did it as a cute leisure activity and also that they were

only capable of sketching the odd flower here and there.

In today's episode I'm chatting to curator of British Art 1550 to 1750 at Tate Britain, Tabitha

Barber, about what women artists were up to back in the day, why the misconceptions around them exist, and why art

is sort of like football when it comes to ideas about the sexes.

It is a cracking exhibition and you can enjoy it until October the 13th, but I hope that you enjoy this interview first.

I'm joined by Tabitha Barber, curator of Now You See Us, Women Artists in Britain 1520 to

1920 a new exhibition at the Tate Britain.

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