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New Zealand: Auckland – Guerrilla Girls Collection at Auckland Art Gallery Toi oTamaki
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.
New Zealand: Auckland – Guerrilla Girls Exhibit at Auckland Art Gallery Toi oTamaki
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.
US: Seattle – Remembering Chief Seattle
Poster reminding us who lived here first. “Chief Seattle Now the Streets are our Home”
US: Savannah, GA – Bonaventure Cemetery After Hours – After Dark Stories
Do you like old cemeteries? Wanna see one after its closed to the public? Are you intrigued by Secret Societies, Old World Rituals, Freemasonry, The New World Order, Stories of love, murder, bootlegging. root doctors, “The Book” and many other macabre and mysterious subjects that is associated with Savannah and Bonaventure Cemetery?
It’s that time of year when Bonaventure Cemetery enchantment hours of Twilight & After Dark afford themselves like no other in this exclusive, flashlight story special with Savannah’s after hours cemetery tour.
Shannon Scott conducts a 3-hour tour that reveals the hidden to the seeker, Covering everything from Savannah’s role in “The DaVinci Code,” to a hooch runner for Al Capone, a woman drowned by one man — her hubby put to death for the crime, and the bizarre love story that ended in one murder and one electric chair moment are only the highlights of the mayhem which will be revealed in the cemetery setting. The Spanish moss, Gothic live oaks and statues staring back come at no extra charge. Why 3 hours? Why not go and find out. Tour includes event poster.
Location: Bonaventure Cemetery, 330 Bonaventure Rd, Savannah, GA 31404
Dates: until Mar 18, 2018
Hours: 5 – 8 pm
Tel: 912-319-5600
shannonscott.com
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