Facts about Guerrilla Girls Performance Art
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A core tactic of Guerrilla Girls performance art involves staging public interventions and demonstrations outside museums to pressure institutions into greater gender and racial equality.
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Posters created by Guerrilla Girls performance art, including their famous 'Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?' billboard, became iconic works of feminist visual culture.
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Founded in New York City in 1985, Guerrilla Girls performance art emerged as a direct response to a Museum of Modern Art exhibition that included very few works by women or artists of color.
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Guerrilla Girls performance art combines activism and humor to expose sexism and racism in the art world, targeting major museums and galleries.
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The Guerrilla Girls use gorilla masks and pseudonyms borrowed from deceased female artists to conceal their identities during performances and public appearances.