Yayoi Kusama, Louise Bourgeois and other female artists’ success is reshaping the art world’s view of women

Other initiatives are also moving in this direction. A new museum dedicated entirely to women artists will open in Mougins, southeast France, in 2024. It will be housed in the town’s Museum of Classical Art, inaugurated in 2011. The latter will close its doors on September 1 for almost a year, before being reborn as FAMM, short for Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins.

FAMM will exclusively present works by women artists from the Christian Levett collection. Among them are creations by Louise Bourgeois, Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner, Cecily Brown, Helen Frankenthaler, Tracey Emin, Barbara Hepworth and many others. “I have been a passionate collector for over a quarter century now, and as my collecting and art research interests matured over the years, I believe that it is now time for the museum to evolve as well. I cannot wait to reopen the new museum, FAMM, which I am certain will quickly become a vibrant destination for connoisseurs, collectors and art lovers in the South of France and globally,” Levett said in a statement.