DC -- Natl Museum of Women in the Arts -- Exhibit: Guerrilla Girls:
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- NMWAGG_160320_01.JPG: The Guerrilla Girls think the world needs a new weapon: The Estrogen Bomb.
Drop it on the superpowers and the guys in charge will throw down their big guns, hug each other, apologize, and start to work on human rights, education, health care and an end to income inequality.
Send estrogen pills to presidents, prime ministers, generals, oligarchs, and CEOs everywhere.
- NMWAGG_160320_06.JPG: Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?
Less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are female.
Statistics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, 2001
Guerrilla Girls -- Conscience of the Art World
www.guerrillagirls.com
- NMWAGG_160320_13.JPG: Dear Art Museum:
Art is expensive! So is constructing new buildings! We totally get why you can't pay all your employees a living wage! Guerrilla Girls
1985
How many women had one-person exhibitions at NYC museums last year?
-- Guggenheim 0
-- Metropolitan 0
-- Modern 1
-- Whitney 0
2015
How many women had one-person exhibitions at NYC museums last year?
-- Guggenheim 1
-- Metropolitan 1
-- Modern 2
-- Whitney 1
- NMWAGG_160320_18.JPG: Top Ten Ways to Tell If You're An Art World Token:
10. Your busiest months are February (Black History Month), March (Women's History), April (Asian-American Awareness), June (Stonewall Anniversary) and September (Latino Heritage).
9. At openings and parties, the only other people of color are serving drinks.
8. Everyone knows your race, gender and sexual preference even when they don't know your work.
7. A museum that won't show your work gives you a prominent place in its lecture series.
6. Your last show got a lot of publicity, but no cash.
5. You're a finalist for a non-tenure-track teaching position at every art school on the east coast.
4. No collector ever buys more than one of your pieces.
3. Whenever you open your mouth, it's assumed that you speak for "your people," not just yourself.
2. People are always telling you their interracial and gay sexual fantasies.
1. A curator who never gave you the time of day before calls you right after a Guerrilla Girls demonstration.
A public service message from Guerrilla Girls Conscience of the Art World
532 LaGuardia Place #237, NY, NY 10012
- NMWAGG_160320_28.JPG: When Racism & Sexism Are No Longer Fashionable, What Will Your Art Collection Be Worth?
The art market won't bestow mega-buck prices on the work of a few white males forever. For the 17.7 million you just spent on a single Jasper Johns painting, you could have bought at least one work by all of these women and artists of color.
- NMWAGG_160320_34.JPG: Guerrilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls are known for using "guerrilla" tactics to expose gender and racial imbalances within contemporary cultural institutions. They self-identify as "a bunch of anonymous females who take the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms." They appear in public wearing gorilla masks to focus on issues instead of their personal identities. Producing posters, stickers, books, and printed products, they work to expose sexism and racism in politics, the art world, film and the culture at large. We thank them for allowing us to reproduce their work here in conjunction with the museum's inaugural FRESH TALK: Righting the Balance -- Can there be gender parity in the art world?
- NMWAGG_160320_45.JPG: Not OK Weekly
The Guerrilla Girls' Scandal Rag
Horror on the National Mall!
Thousands of women locked in basements of DC museums!
Why does macho art world keep female artists out of sight?
The National Gallery: BOY CRAZY?
only 3 one-person exhibitions of women in the last 10 years; 68 by guys.
... OR JUST CRAZY?
Only one work by an African American artist on display at National Gallery right now.
Celebs say: Museums must adopt new policies!!
How to fix Smithsonian: take away execs' high salaries and secret expense accounts and use $$$ to buy and exhibit more art by women and artists of color!
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