{"id":3775,"date":"2016-04-05T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T09:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2016-04-05T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T13:41:12","slug":"the-guerrilla-girls-take-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/the-guerrilla-girls-take-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guerrilla Girls Take New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Art Zealous, we love art \u2013 whether created by a woman, a man, an African-American, Latino, or LGBTQ person. Strong art is strong art: we love it all equally. So when the legendary Guerrilla Girls<\/a> recently opened our eyes to some pretty staggering statistics about our beloved art world, we took notice.<\/p>\n

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The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of protesters who don gorilla masks and use guerrilla tactics to fight sexism and racism within the art world. In a presentation at ArtsWestchester<\/a> (Westchester, NY), two of its members shined a light on imbalances within the high art industry. Specifically, they focused on the unbalanced ratio of male to female artists on display in major museums.<\/p>\n

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They didn\u2019t denigrate the works of male artists but instead voiced concern about the lack of women artists who are represented in the same museums that generously display the works of those men. In 2012, less than 4% of the artists exhibited in the modern art sections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were women, yet 76% of the nudes were female.<\/p>\n

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The Guerrilla Girls suggested that we (women AND men) should \u201ccomplain, complain, complain, but be creative complainer(s)\u201d and that we \u201cshould not be afraid of using the F word \u2013 feminism,\u201d because \u201cfeminism is changing the world, but there\u2019s still so much to do.\u201d The number of women in\u00a0solo shows\u00a0in New York City\u2019s major museums was zero or one each in 1985; and only one to two each in 2015. They added, \u201cno one is free until everyone is free.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They asserted that expressing the narrative of our collective history predominantly through the works of only men (or only white) artists neglects to tell the full history of our culture. A large piece of the overall perspective is missing when the story isn\u2019t told by the whole of the society for which it is speaking. They continued, \u201c[Women] can\u2019t take it personally. It\u2019s the system that needs to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So, we at Art Zealous urge you all to take in the work of some female artists (and yes, some male artists, too). National Women\u2019s History Month may be over, but that doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t appreciate the work of some talented women this month, and all year \u2018round, as well!<\/p>\n

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Guerrilla Girls in the green room before the performance (photo credit: Hope Salley)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A sold-out audience enjoyed the Guerrilla Girls at ArtsWestchester, surrounded by “SHE: Deconstructing Female Identity” (photos \/\/ Mary Alice Franklin)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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