Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989

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The Guerilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists, who use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture in their artworks. In 1989, they designed this billboard for the Public Art Fund (PAF) in New York, aimed to criticize the museum institutions for under-representing female artists and objectifying women. The PAF rejected this piece, deeming it “too provocative.” Instead, the Guerilla Girls rented advertising space on NYC buses and ran the ad themselves.

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This project is effective in that it calls out and amplifies the disproportionate representation within museums. There were concrete numbers that this group followed that showed museums started to shift their displays following this campaign