The Museo Casa Natal Picasso in Málaga, Spain, has opened the exhibition "Ni Musas Ni Modelos" (Neither Muses Nor Models), which seeks to reclaim the legacy of Marisol Escobar, a Venezuelan-born pop artist who rose to fame in the 1960s but later fell into obscurity. The show features over forty works by Escobar—including her piece "Saco La Lengua" (I Stick Out My Tongue)—alongside works by thirty other artists such as Dorothea Tanning and Helen Frankenthaler, aiming to correct the historical sidelining of female artists.
This exhibition matters because it challenges the male-dominated narrative of pop art, restoring recognition to a pioneering woman who was once more famous than Andy Warhol but was later reduced to his muse. By highlighting Escobar's satirical, feminist critique of gender roles, Cold War politics, and social conventions, the show underscores ongoing efforts to recover overlooked contributions of women artists and to question how art history is written.