New Zealand: Auckland – Guerrilla Girls Exhibit at Auckland Art Gallery Toi oTamaki
By glenda. Filed in Art, Culture, Exhibition, History, Museum, New Zealand, Travel, Walking Tour |
Founded in New York City in 1985, the Guerilla Girls movement has been challenging feminine bias in art, politics, film, and pop culture since then. The catalyst was a 1984 exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC which 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 of defiant and humorous pamphlets, videos, books posters, posted around the world. They had had enough of gender and racial discrimination in museums everywhere. This call to action was to erase the double standard. It took the US film industry’s Academy Awards community until 2018 to get to the same place.
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