Artworld billionaires are the target of the new campaign by the anonymous feminist group Guerrilla Girls, which is planned to take over the twin cities of Minneapolis and St Paul in Minnesota in the course of next year, The Art Newspaper reports. In an email to TAN, the collective explained: ‘Cartels of collectors get behind the work of a few selected artists; galleries are paying for exhibitions of their artists at museums; and art fairs are showing the same bankable work over and over’.
The collective, who turned 30 this year, says to expect more ‘stealth projections’ similar to the one displayed on the side of the Whitney Museum of American Art in May that read: ‘Dear art collector: art is sooo expensive, even for billionaires! We totally get why you can’t pay all your employees a living wage #poorlittlebillionaires.’ The campaign is part of the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover, a week-long festival (29 February – 6 March 2016) which will include a series of street actions involving hundreds of artists and events at major institutions.
18 November 2015.
