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The infamous feminist collective GUERRILLA GIRLS are no April Fools. They constantly bring accountability and institutional critique to the U.S art world in order to achieve equity for those under presented by museums and galleries.
GUERRILLA GIRLS tactics include deconstructing foundational myths about histories of art. For the exhibition Women Reframe the American Landscape, at the Thomas Cole Foundation, they declared the Hudson River School a white guys’ club that created fantasies about stolen indigenous land to sell to the same robber baron collectors who destroyed the environment.
Guerrilla Girls Reality Check: The Hudson River School
Today, in popular television series like Yellowstone and it’s spinoffs, you see an elevation of the same settler fantasies and imaginary origin stories recast as the pioneering of of empty, pristine landscape.
“It wasn't a school, it was a club!” Purchase a poster of The Hudson River School from their website.
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.”
