New Zealand: Auckland – Guerrilla Girls Collection at Auckland Art Gallery Toi oTamaki
By glenda. Filed in Art, Culture, Exhibition, Museum, New Zealand, Travel, Walking Tour |
In 1984 an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC was an International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. Of the 165 important paintings and sculptures mentioned, only 15 were created by women. The furor of this inequity started the Guerilla Girls movement to end gender and racial discrimination in museums everywhere . They created defiant and humorous pamphlets, videos, books and posters shown around the world. This call to action was to erase the double standard.
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