Your Radical Guide To Fighting Discrimination In The Arts
Submitted by Steve on March 7, 2016
From Tricia Tongco, Social Media Editor for Arts & Culture at The Huffington Post:
Since 1985, the Guerrilla Girls have been raising a much-needed ruckus over gender and racial inequality in the art world, under the leadership of seven anonymous, masked women. For over 30 years, they've publicly condemned museums that fail to collect or showcase women artists and artists of color, using facts, humor and "outrageous visuals." After decades of work, they show no signs of stopping.
Why? Because women are still severely underrepresented in galleries and museums. Recent stats reflect the dismal state of gender parity in the art world: In 2013, every artist in the top 100 auction sales was a man. In 2014, there were no women in the top 40. In 2015, only five of 34 art galleries surveyed by the feminist art collective Pussy Galore boasted rosters in which women constituted more than 50 percent.