What they’re saying about our newEST book:

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Courageous practitioners of the arts of inspiration and instigation, the Guerrilla Girls have mounted 35 years’ worth of cunning attacks, by holding those entrenched in privilege accountable: in galleries, museums, and the societies these cultural institutions reflect. This brilliant collective is unparalleled, empowering communities by exposing gender and racial inequalities in the art world and beyond—and it’s all here, in dozens of indelible works that are some of the most impactful of all time.
- Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC

The masked and anonymous Guerrilla Girls, behaving so badly they’re good, have been agitating for gender equity in the institutional art world for 35 years. Progress has been made — though not enough — but graphic punch and irrepressible wit skewer powerful patriarchy at every turn in the pages of “Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly,” which chronicles the history of their exploits.
- Christopher Knight, Critic, LA Times

You can't understand art history without the Guerrilla Girls, and you can't grasp the Guerrilla Girls' depth and humor without this book. It's an essential resource for thinking and making art.
- Nell Irvin Painter, author of Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over and The History of White People

SELECTED PRESS

For hundreds more, see our chronology.

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2021

The New York Times: The Artists Bringing Activism Into and Beyond Gallery Spaces, 10/01/2021

Morning Star: Does art imitate life or life imitate art?, 06/23/2021

The Art Newspaper: Sexism by Numbers, 06/11/2021

New York Post: MoMA in talks with chairman Leon Black over his Jeffrey Epstein ties, 03/14/2021

Bijutsu Techo: ユーモアと風刺で美術界の問題を暴き出す。ゲリラ・ガールズインタビュー, 02/07/2021

artnet news: The Guerrilla Girls Canceled Their Book Contract With Phaidon Over Billionaire Owner Leon Black’s ‘Shady Dealings’ With Jeffrey Epstein, 02/02/2021

New York Times: Amid Epstein Revelations, Leon Black Remains Chairman of MoMA, 01/27/2021

Document Journal: Blueprints for a better world, 01/15/2021


2020

Hyperallergic: 30 Years of the Guerrilla Girls’ Art and Advocacy, 11/30/2020

LA Times: The 10 best coffee table books for the art museum obsessed, 10/30/2020

The Guardian: ‘We upend the artworld’s notion of what’s good and what’s right’, 10/19/2020

Hypebeast: Three Decades of Behaving Badly With the Guerrilla Girls, 10/09/2020

i-D magazine: An interview with feminist punk icons the Guerrilla Girls, 10/08/2020

The Art Newspaper: The Guerrilla Girls say ‘get mad and keep up the fight’, 10/08/2020

The Art Newspaper: Guerrilla Girls focus on Black Lives Matter in new video, 06/19/2020

El Tiempo: Guerrilla Girls: la escuadra feminista que sacude al arte desde 1985, 05/17/2020


2019

Artsy: Art Movements of the Decade. 12/18/2019

Hyperallergic: Guerrilla Girls Target MoMA Trustees With Ties to Jeffrey Epstein in an Ad Takeover. 11/13/2019

Le Temps: La Guerrilla Girl qui se fait appeler Frida Kahlo. 11/12/2019

A Women’s Thing (AWT): The Link Between Museums and Activism. 10/07/2019

Variety: Guerrilla Girls Return After 20 Years to Remind You Hollywood Is Still Terrible for Women Directors, 02/05/2019

The Telegraph, India: Why feminist group Guerrilla Girls wears Gorilla masks. 02/03/2019


2018

The Times of India: ‘The art world has become an instrument for the rich and powerful. We are fighting to change that’, 12/11/2018

La Nacion: Guerrilla Girls: la resistencia feminista golpea el mundo del arte, 11/09/2018

inter-actions: Guerrilla Girls: The Conscience of the Art World and Beyond, 10/2018

ArtNet: The Guerrilla Girls Are Helping Museums Contend With #MeToo. Read Their Proposed Chuck Close Wall Labels Here, 09/26/2018

HighSnobiety: Roger Gastman Shares an Inside Look of the ‘Beyond the Streets’ Exhibition, 05/29/2018

Los Angeles Magazine: There’s a Historical Re-Creation of the Venice Pavilion at This Massive Street Art Show, 05/04/2018

Evening Standard: Ten paintings that changed the world, 04/19/2018

Esquire Spain: Guerrilla Girls, ¿podría estar Banksy detrás de una máscara de gorila?, 04/04/2018

Hong Kong Free Press: ‘A little bit of espionage’ – The Guerrilla Girls attack gender and class bias at Art Basel Hong Kong, 03/31/2018


2017

USA Today: In Florence, they're bringing the works of women artists out of the basement, 12/26/2017

Newsreview.com: Käthe Kollwitz, founding member of the Guerrilla Girls, 10/05/2017

ARTSY: How Feminist Artists Reclaimed Futura from New York's Mad Men, 08/11/2017

The Female Gaze: Profiles in Art: Zubeida Agha of the Guerrilla Girls, 08/03/2017

Contemporânea: GUERRILLA GIRLS: conversam com João Mourão e Luís Silva, 04/2017

The Art Newspaper: UFFIZI TO SHOW MORE FEMALE ARTISTS

Florence museum’s director expands the canon—with a little help from the Guerrilla Girls, 02/02/2017

 

THE ART NEWSPAPER: Guerrilla Girls target super-wealthy collectors, 10/05/2016

Private Eye:

Manuel Braun pour Libération.

Manuel Braun pour Libération.

 

Audio / Video

2023

BBC Witness History: The Guerrilla Girls, 11/09/20

The Lonely Palette: BonusEp 0.3:Tamar Avishai interviews The Guerrilla Girls, 11/13/20

Call Your Girlfriend Podcast: Art of Resistance, 10/30/2020

The Great Women Artists Podcast: Guerrilla Girls, 10/28/2020

Conversations About Art: Guerrilla Girls & Heidi Zuckerman, 10/13/2020

Tate Talks: Art Chat: Guerrilla Girls & Bishi, 09/10/2020

When you got to an art gallery, how much of what you see has been made by women? Women artists are underrepresented in most museums. But this year, a special series at the New Britain Museum of American Art will exclusively feature exhibitions by female artists.

2018

Juxtapoz Magazine: Beyond the Streets Presents: This is The Guerrilla Girls, 06/07/2018

It's hard to put the historical impact of the Guerrilla Girls into a short explanation. They were making interventionist street art before the label Street Art was even created.

The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world. The group formed in New York City in 1985 with the mission of bringing gender and racial inequality into focus within the greater arts community.

P4 Halland: Guerrilla Girls Radio Interview, Mjellby Museum, Halmstad, Sweden, 09/28/2018

Guerrilla Girls: Art and Feminism. They three decades denouncing the discrimination of women in art. Always with humor and covered with gorilla masks, U.S. activists tell us their story. Guerrilla Girls: Arte y Feminismo. Llevan tres décadas denunciando la discriminación de la mujer en el arte.

 

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