One of the basic issues faced in the art world is the lack of women artists and artists of color in museums. One of my favorite places to get information on this issue is by checking out the Guerilla Girls website. The Guerilla Girls are a group of women artists who take on the names of departed women artists, like Frida Kahlo, as pseudonyms and wear gorilla masks at public appearances. They create humorous posters and books to help fight discrimination and call that changes be made to the system. Probably one of the most widely known of the posters is the one asking “Do women have to be naked to get into U.S. museums?” and then states that “Less than 3% of the artists in the Met. Museum are women, but 83% of the nudes are female.” Now doesn't that sound just a little bit unequal?
The Guerilla Girls website can be found here.
And you can check out that poster by clicking this.
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There's this great essay by John Berger in Ways of Seeing that discusses the 'difference' between nudity and naked, and argues that some pieces of classical 'art' were really rich men's pornography. You might check it out!
And thanks for the link; I just discovered that they're doing a gallery in my hometown. Guess who's checkin' out next weekend? :D
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