IF YOU GO …
Where: Schermer Meeting Hall, Anderson Ranch Arts Center
When: Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.
How much: $25
Tickets and more info: andersonranch.org; also streaming online
The Guerrilla Girls have spent the past 36 years fighting the powers that be in the art world, producing inspired public art campaigns to identify sexism and racism in museums and galleries and in wider cultural history.
This masked, anonymous collective — who wear gorilla masks and use the names of female artists past — has helped change the trajectory of culture with works like “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” — their now-iconic 1989 poster that starkly identified that less than 5% all of the artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern wing were women but that 85% of its nudes were female. That breakthrough poster identified The Guerrilla Girls as the “conscience of the art world” and they’ve served as such ever since.