Guerrilla Girls Redux

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

naked

The old Guerrilla Girls question, “Do women have to be naked to get in the Met. Museum?” comes to mind as Jerry Saltz challenges MoMA to explain why only 4% of the work on its 4th and 5th floors is by women artists. Exactly 20 years ago (after a “weenie count”), the Guerrilla Girls observed that only 5% of the art in the Modern art galleries at the Met was by women, though 85% of the nudes were female. Did anyone imagine progress would be so slow–or that we would actually regress?