Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
The big stand out to me from this symposium was the Gorilla Girls. They're a group who fights sexism and racism in the art world. They've done a lot with billboards, posters, etc. They don't even put themselves in the limelight by wearing gorilla masks. Their most popular piece is this
I assume the art world had a reaction close to, "You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!" or something like that. It brought a lot of attention to the art world. It humiliated them
And I'm more then sure their response was "The way you humiliated me? All of you? YOU led me around on a LEASH!" But that's just an assumption.
The art world really is dis-proportionally white and male. If you ask them they'll say they're taking efforts to make it more diverse but nothing they've done has made effective change. A conversation about it with them would go something like this.
Honorious :Tell us, why are all apes created equal?
George Taylor:George Taylor Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others.
OK I'll stop monkeying around. They seriously helped push for change using prints. It's impressive and it gave me the opportunity to use Planet of the Apes (1968) quotes. So, it's a win win.
By the way if the font looks like the size changes often sorry it does and I don't know why.
By the way if the font looks like the size changes often sorry it does and I don't know why.
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