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| Guerrilla Girls, mock-up for the poster Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, about 1989. Getty Research Institute |
Add the Getty Research Institute to the list of institutions marking the 40th anniversary of the Guerrilla Girls with an exhibition. "How to Be a Guerrilla Girl" will be at the Getty Center's GRI galleries Nov. 18, 2025, to Apr. 12, 2026. The GRI acquired the anonymous group's archives (through 2003) in 2008.
There's not much indication that the war on woke is dampening enthusiasm for the band of gorilla-masked feminists. Currently there are three distinct GG shows running simultaneously: in London ("Guerrilla Girls at Tate" at Tate Modern through Dec. 31, 2025); Sofia, Bulgaria ("The Art of Behaving Badly" at Bulgaria's National Gallery through June 10, 2025); and Washington, DC ("Guerrilla Girls: Behaving Badly" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts through Sep. 28, 2025).
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| Installation view, "Guerrilla Girls at Tate" |
Comments
--- J. Garcin
> largely responsible for the
> banality that has overtaken
> contemporary art production.
Bad taste isn't necessarily a leftist or rightist dynamic. There are liberals who reflect the nature of what "The Emperor's New Clothes" is all about, just as there were more conservative (or less politically liberal) people over 50-60 years ago throughout LA's cultural scene who took forever to build a LACMA.
In turn, largely left-leaning people in today's LA are making LACMA more provincial, more like a regional (or commercial) art gallery. Although that will be (or won't be) more apparent as the Geffen Galleries in the next few years start entering a finished state.
Also, a smaller, younger city like San Francisco in today's era may not be doing any better because it's very liberal*, while a larger, older city like Paris, London or New York (although politically very similar) isn't nearly as affected.
* I've read some people criticize the largely progressive high-tech people of San Francisco and their heavily left-leaning-money preferences as hurting the cultural scene of the SF Bay Area.