‘Not Ready to Make Nice,’ Guerrilla Girls exhibit injects humor, feminism into m
‘Not Ready to Make Nice,’ Guerrilla Girls exhibit injects humor, feminism into museum“An art installation created by a group of anonymous women is challenging society as well as the institution hosting the exhibit by asking, “Do women have to be nude to get into a museum?”Sarah Kate Gillespie, American art curator for the Georgia Museum of Art, spoke Friday at the University of Georgia Zell B. Miller Learning Center about “Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond,” an exhibit from the anonymous, feminist art group Guerrilla Girls that’s showing at GMOA until March 1.The Guerrilla Girls have been crusading for equality for women and people of color in the art world through public art and activism since the 1980s. Best known for its sarcastic, text-based installations plastered in public spaces under the cover of darkness, the group’s members wear gorilla masks in public and use the names of dead female artists as pseudonyms to protect their anonymity. Their posters cite museum statistics to point out disparities and unfair working conditions for women artists and artists of color, as well as the value of the work they produce.”Read the full piece hereGuerrilla Girls Official Website -- source link
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