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Discrimi-NATION: Guerrilla Girls on Bias, Money, and Art

Guerrilla Girls, At Last! Museums Will No Longer Discriminate Against Women and Minority Artists, 1988.

150 Orchard Street, New York, New York, 10002

Since 1985, the Guerrilla Girls say they have used “disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture.” To honor their 40th anniversary, the Hannah Traore Gallery is giving the anonymous activist group its first commercial gallery show. It will survey their decades-long rage against the machine and their prescient critiques of the art world. Through posters with headlines such as “Only 4 commercial galleries in N.Y. show Black women. Only 1 shows more than 1,” and “Guerrilla Girls predict that museums in the east will have a white male winter. And a white male spring, summer & fall.” Now you can enjoy their iconic commentaries on the walls of a real gallery instead of wheat-pasted around the Lower East Side. It’s a long overdue institutional acknowledgment of their work, and perhaps even a signal that the times are finally changing. —Lucy Horowitz

© Hannah Traore Gallery, Courtesy of Guerrilla Girls