up the pecking order.

Yet in the UK, and the international art world beyond, a shift may be occurring, driven by women who have taken the helm of some of the biggest art institutions. This year, Maria Balshaw will become the first female director of Tate Galleries, while Frances Morris, director of Tate Modern, has been consistently vocal about championing female artists since she was appointed in 2015. According to Morris, Tate Modern’s permanent collection representing 335 female artists compared with 959 male artists is “just not good enough”.

In a powerful move, she chose to devote half of the solo-artist rooms in the Tate Modern extension, Switch House, to female artists such as Louise Bourgeouis, Ana Lupas and Suzanne Lacy when it opened last summer.

“Very simply, we have madeActivists planning tour to urge new immigration rules

June 14, 2007|By Ruth Morris Staff Writer

Immigrant activists gathered at Miami's Amtrak station Wednesday to announce a cross-country campaign to press Congress to pass an immigration overhaul.

A group of 15 will board a train to Washington, D.C., on Sunday, while 100 business owners, clergy and community leaders travel there by bus in the Dreams Across America Tour. Once in Washington, they will join activists from other cities in lobbying lawmakers to restart work on the immigration bill the Senate shelved last week.

"For the last several months the immigration debate has focused on conditions and punishments," Miami Archbishop John Favalora said of provisions in the Senate bill that would charge undocumented immigrants thousands of dollars in fines and fees for legal status.