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Not All Superheroes Put on Capes, Some Don Gorilla Masks 
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Not All Superheroes Put on Capes, Some Don Gorilla Masks 

Last updated: February 4, 2025 3:10 am
Editorial Board Published February 4, 2025
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I stood in entrance of a poster created in 2016 by the famend Guerrilla Women collective titled “President Trump Announces New Commemorative Months!” and I used to be struck at the way it may’ve simply been made final week. African American Historical past Month is crossed out and changed by Ku Klux Klan Month, LGBTQ Pleasure Month is swapped with Pray the Homosexual Away Month, and American Indian Heritage Month is supplanted by White Individuals’s Month. All of it echoes the patterns of American historical past from the final 248 years that proceed to depart their mark on our day by day lives. 

This one-room exhibition at Hannah Traore Gallery combines a long time of visible activism from the OGs of art-world tradition jamming. Early examples took shut intention at museums and galleries, whereas the march of time turned the group’s focus to the broader political realities of america, reflecting the bigger cultural footprint of the up to date artwork area and its affect by visible activism. 

I’m undecided if I’d think about these works memes, even when they proceed to reverberate and encourage new iterations whereas hiding below the cloak of secrecy — whereas many memes have factors of origin or creators, most floor within the collective pool of tension, anger, ridicule, or another unresolved emotion that pricks at our cultural pores and skin. What may be very clear in these items is the nameless group’s extraordinary affect. 

Guests within the Guerrilla Women’ Discrimi-NATION exhibition at Hannah Traore Gallery, New York

Right here the machinations of race, gender, and sexuality within the artwork world haven’t been politely contextualized, however relatively blurted out in black and white — although coloration is more and more the medium of alternative as applied sciences and their prices have modified, and our social media diets require extra pizzazz. Some issues have shifted at museums and galleries, just like the elevated prevalence of ladies and non-White artists, whereas others largely haven’t. 

Final Friday on CNN, Republican pollster Frank Luntz defined that Trump voters are “really, really tired of being accused of either racism or sexism because they voted for Donald Trump, and it’s one of the reasons why so many of them did.” That sort of round logic ought to sound acquainted to artwork worlders who typically really feel trapped in a area that purports to rejoice creativity, distinction, and typically social justice (when there’s funding available), whereas donor fragility kneecaps any and all of these on the earliest inconvenience. 

With abortion rights, trans well being care, immigration protections, and so many different points on the precipice after November’s election, I’d like to know what the bat sign equal could be as we plead with our artwork world superheroes to save lots of us. Not all superheroes put on capes; some don gorilla masks. Now, if I advised you the origin of that meme, you may not imagine me, however we’re well past purity checks, and we want assist. Now.

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Guerrilla Women, “One 4 Commercial Galleries in N.Y. Show Black Women.*” (1986)

Discrimi-NATION: Guerrilla Women on Bias, Cash, and Artwork continues at Hannah Traore gallery (150 Orchard Avenue, Decrease East Aspect, Manhattan) by March 29. The exhibition was organized by the gallery.

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