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Support Same Sex Marriage – Go Ape With The Guerilla Girls

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Press release by the Guerilla Girls. Cross posted at Guerillagirls.com

WE’RE INVADING MINNESOTA TO SUPPORT SAME SEX MARRIAGE AND FIGHT VOTER ID … PLUS DROPPING A BOMB ON D.C.

Michele Bachmann, just like you and me! Check out our Minneapolis billboard at Glenwood Avenue at N.12th St. We used Bachmann’s own words to fight marriage discrimination in Minnesota. She declared all Americans have the same civil rights, including the right to marry. (Only, according to her, gays and lesbians have to marry someone of the opposite sex!)

Billboard made by the Guerilla Girls

Voter ID? Check, please?
This flyer is being distributed door to door in Minnesota (USA).

Voter ID by the Guerilla Girls

There’s also a Voter ID amendment on the 2012 ballot in Minnesota, so we did a flyer to remind Minnesotans that to get IDs, they have to pay and pay. We al know that Voter ID laws are not about voter fraud, which rarely occurs. They are a right wing attempt to prevent people from voting — especially poor people.

JAM YOUR CULTURE! GO APE WITH US! LOVE, GUERRILLA GIRLS

Guerrilla Girls Invade NYC

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Press Release

Making Trouble at the Brooklyn Museum
Thursday March 29, 7 PM

We’ll present our recent activist projects from around the world and read from our updated Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book — where we complain, complain, complain about the 1% who run museums for the rest of us. After, we’ll meet, greet, and sign copies of our new book.

Iris and B Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd floor, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.

Book Launch Party at Printed Matter
Saturday March 31, 5-7 PM

Celebrate the new Guerrilla Girls Art Museum Activity Book, published by Printed Matter. More pages, more fun facts about museum corruption and more tips on what you can do about it.

195 10th Avenue, NY, NY

See our Datebook or Facebook for where the Guerrilla Girls will be next.

JAM YOUR CULTURE! GO APE WITH US! LOVE, GUERRILLA GIRLS

SOMArts Cultural Center: Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze

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SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco presents

Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, November 4–30, 2011
Opening Reception with Artwork Dedication & Performance
Friday, Nov 4 2011, 6–9 pm. Free Admission.

Women Artists Look at Men and Masculinity - Art Exhibition Re-envisions Gender, Society and The Politics of Exposure

San Francisco, CA, USA – Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze is an exhibition that re-envisions gender, society and the politics of exposure.With a gallery filledwithmen stripped naked, this body of work exposes women’s cheeky, provocative and sometimes shocking commentaries on the opposite sex. The exhibition’s contemporary scope encompasses all the ways that women view Man-as-Object, reversing the traditional view of male artists objectifying women. Its diverse perspectives onmasculinity come fromstraight, transsexual, transgender, lesbian and multi-cultural artists through a spectrum of media, from paintings to sculpture, installations to performance, video to social media. The show’s extensive collection of male adoration, male impersonation and male appendages may make the viewer squirma little. But that is precisely the point. The more than 100 women artists in the exhibition unapologetically reveal how they really see men. Through this public display at SOMArts Cultural Center, the show’s organizers aimto equalize the gaze between the sexes.

San Francisco State University Assistant Professor Tanya Augsburg selected 117 pieces from 900 submissions for presentation in the SOMArts Cultural Center gallery on behalf of Karen Gutfreund and Priscilla Otani, recipients of the 2011 SOMArts Cultural Center Curatorial Residency Award. The show will travel in part to the Kinsey Institute Gallery in April 2012. Showing at SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street, San
Francisco, CA., 11/4 – 11/30/11, Tues-Fri 12-7 p.m.; Sat 12-5 p.m.

Featured Artists
This big group exhibition feature among feminist artists Juana Alicia, Nancy Buchanan, Guerrilla Girls On Tour!, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jill O’Bryan, ORLAN, Carolee Schneemann, Sylvia Sleigh, May Wilson and Melissa P. Wolf and self identified queer artists Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens. Other queer artists are Tania Hammidi, Tristan Crane, Molly Marie Nuzzo and Chanel Matsunami Govreau. The full list of exhibiting artists is available at the official exhibition website.

Publication
Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze is accompanied by a full color catalog by Tanya Augsburg and Karen Gutfreund, with essays from Lynn Hershman Leeson, Annie Sprinkle and others. Curator Tanya Augsburg wrote in the catalogue introduction about Elisabeth Stephens work at the exhibition:

“Alternatively, Elizabeth Stephens addresses penis size mythologies from a lesbian-turned-ecosexual perspective with her bronze sculpture, Ron Jeremy’s BVDs (2008). Porn star Ron Jeremy is legendary for the size of his cock; however, Stephens regards the penis as just “one erotic object in a field of visual objects.” In an email Stephens writes: “I find more erotic, for instance female genitalia, trees, dirt, water, mountains—and in terms of this competition it doesn’t really stand up as the most powerful object of desire.”(…) Stephens gazes beyond Jeremy’s famous anatomy to focus on the abject qualities of his dirty underwear. Unimpressed by either the length or girth of a penis, Stephens provides a humorous reality check to those willing to ignore a man’s unsightly appearance and demeanor just because he has a big you-know-what.

Sponsors
Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze is sponsored by Women’s Caucus for Art and made possible through grants and assistance from SOMArts Cultural Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Foundation.

Related Links
Official Exhibition Website of Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze

Guerrilla Girls: Thou Must Collect And Exhibit More Art By Women!

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Guerrilla Girls is an American group of feminist masked avengers working for equal rights for female visual artists. They have been dedicated to this cause since 1985. Here is a few quotes from their latest newsletter:

‘All over the world, we meet lots of people – age 8 to 80 – who are unafraid to call themselves feminists, and who use feminism as a platform for art, activism and culture jamming. The “f” word lives! Women’s Rights, Civil Rights and GLBT Rights are the great human rights movements of our time. The world is slowly changing, but there’s still a really long way to go. (…)

DO WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR 1986 POSTER?Poster by Guerilla Girls
Gender equality is now the law in Spain. State-funded museums must do better by women artists. We spoke at two events in Spain recently to brainstorm how to implement this initiative. A conference called by Xabier Arakistain, director of the Montehermoso Cultural Center (lots of great shows there, by the way) gathered international museum curators, government officials, and artists’ groups to talk about how the new law might work. We learned something astounding: there are European curators and museum directors who have made it their personal – and very public – mission to increase the number of women artists in their collections. Time for US museums to do what Spain, the Tate Modern, London and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm are doing: collect and exhibit more art by women.

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We are so lucky to be able to do this work and to travel around talking about it. Thanks so much for the thousands of emails every year. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, talk about the issues with your friends, and do your own culture jamming. To schedule an appearance by the Guerrilla Girls, contact fridakahlo@guerrillagirls.com. 
 
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Guerilla Girls Fight For Equality In The Art World

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Guerilla Girls gave a talk at the fifth annual Women in the Arts luncheon held on Friday, November 9, 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum. Video: 15 min.

Arts activists, the Guerrilla Girls are a group of anonymous women or “feminist masked avengers” fighting for gender and racial equality.  They tell the American art world how male-centric it is, and question why art by male artists is better than art made by women, black, and hispanic people. In the video above you can see them in action giving a talk at the Brooklyn Museum.

Guerilla Girls recieved the College Art Association’s inaugural Distinguished Feminist Award 2009 in San Francisco. CAA wrote about them: “Since 1985 the members of the group have harassed, entertained, shamed, and moved the art world with their direct campaigns that provide statistical information on inequities in the art world. As they adapted 1980s strategies of moving art into the public arena, their masked appearances, performances, and public posters have precisely and pertinently “called out” the art world about its practices and habitual behaviors. The Guerrilla Girls have also used humor and satire to expose gender bias, gender erasure, and gender-centric concepts of creativity and genius.”

Related links
Guerilla Girls website
Guerilla Girls at College Art Association 2009