Guerrilla Girls

Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into Boston Museums?
2012

A provocative poster with a bright yellow background featuring bold black text that reads "Do women have to be naked to get into Boston museums?" Below the text is a black-and-white image of a reclining nude woman whose head is replaced with that of a gorilla, and a caption in smaller text states "Plenty of the nudes in the Museum of Fine Arts are female, but only 11% of the artists are women." At the bottom, there's a reference to the source of the statistics from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2012, and the name "Guerrilla Girls" along with the tagline "Conscience of the Art World" and their website address.

A provocative poster with a bright yellow background featuring bold black text that reads "Do women have to be naked to get into Boston museums?" Below the text is a black-and-white image of a reclining nude woman whose head is replaced with that of a gorilla, and a caption in smaller text states "Plenty of the nudes in the Museum of Fine Arts are female, but only 11% of the artists are women." At the bottom, there's a reference to the source of the statistics from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2012, and the name "Guerrilla Girls" along with the tagline "Conscience of the Art World" and their website address.

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Date
2012

Classification
Prints

Medium
Poster

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 3/4 × 23in. (34.9 × 58.4 cm)

Accession number
2020.28.3

Series
Guerrilla Girls' Portfolio Compleat 2012-2016 Upgrade, 2016-2018

Edition
19/50

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee in honor of David W. Kiehl

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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artworks/62458

Guerrilla Girls
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