Guerrilla Girls (Group of artists)

The Guerrilla Girls formed in 1985 as an anonymous group determined to fight sexism in the art world. Their initial strategy was to put up protest posters during the night in the Soho neighborhood of Manhattan. What residents saw in the morning were statistics printed in black on white paper, and the numbers spoke for themselves: that only one woman had had a solo exhibition in a New York Museum in the previous year; that fewer than 10% of artists shown in top galleries were women; that art magazines devoted less than 25% of coverage to women artists. Confronting the art world with its patent injustice, the posters caused a sensation.

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2018-03-06 08:03:11 am

Jerry Simmons

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2018-02-27 08:02:11 am

Dina Herbert

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2018-02-27 08:02:54 am

Dina Herbert

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Dina Herbert

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