Join the Boston Public Library for this Revolutionary Art talk with Guerrilla Girls member Frida Kahlo. Frida will present on the topic of gender and racial inequality in the art world as well as discuss the current and past work of the Guerrilla Girls.
Later during the program, journalist Kate Dellis will interview Frida Kahlo and then open the floor up to audience questions. The program will conclude with a meet and greet with Frida after the talk.
“Frida Kahlo” is a member of the Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics, and pop culture. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights for human rights for all people. They undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. They have done hundreds of unforgettable projects (street posters, banners, actions, books, and videos) all over the world. Their retrospectives and traveling exhibitions have attracted thousands. Currently their work is on display at Tate Modern, where 17,000 people came to meet them in person on January 31, 2024! Their latest book, Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly collects hundreds of our projects from 1985 to today, and was named one of the best art books of 2020 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
Other exhibitions include the São Paulo Museum of Art; the Venice Biennale; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Military History, Dresden; Art Basel Hong Kong; Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; Toi o Tāmaki Museum, New Zealand; National Museum of World Writing, Korea; and hundreds more. The Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, is preparing an exhibition of their 40-year history for Fall 2025.