IF YOU GO …
Where: Schermer Meeting Hall, Anderson Ranch Arts Center
When: Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.
How much: $25
Tickets and more info: andersonranch.org; also streaming online
The Guerrilla Girls have spent the past 36 years fighting the powers that be in the art world, producing inspired public art campaigns to identify sexism and racism in museums and galleries and in wider cultural history.
This masked, anonymous collective who wear gorilla masks and use the names of female artists past has helped change the trajectory of culture with works like “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” their now-iconic 1989 poster that starkly identified that less than 5% all of the artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern wing were women but that 85% of its nudes were female. That breakthrough poster identified The Guerrilla Girls as the “conscience of the art world” and they’ve served as such ever since.
GUERRILLA GIRLS, the anonymous group of US feminist female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world, are bringing their unique form of “culture jamming” to billboard displays across Britain.
They formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of highlighting gender and racial inequality in the visual arts community and, to remain anonymous, members don gorilla masks and use pseudonyms referencing deceased female artists.
Their latest project involves large-scale billboards across Britain in iconic locations from Glasgow Barrowlands to London Bridge, countryside locations and seaside towns until July 18.
They are part of The Male Graze which explores bad male behaviour through the lens of art history.
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