Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum?

Guerrilla Girls

Brooklyn Museum Photograph

Caption

Guerrilla Girls established United States, 1985. Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum?, 1989. Offset lithograph on poster board, 11 × 28 in. (27.9 × 71.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Guerrilla Girls BroadBand, Inc., 2017.26.26. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum Photograph, 2017.26.26_PS11.jpg)

Title

Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum?

Date

1989

Medium

Offset lithograph on poster board

Classification

Print

Dimensions

11 × 28 in. (27.9 × 71.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Guerrilla Girls BroadBand, Inc.

Accession Number

2017.26.26

Rights

© artist or artist's estate

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Frequent Art Questions

  • I noticed this was created in 1989. Do you know the statistic for today?

    The Guerrilla Girls do actually go to the Met and recount and recollect this statistic regularly.
    The most recent version of this poster that they produced is from 2012. At that time, it read "Less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are female."
    They have also created versions of this poster for other museums, most recently the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, in 2017.

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