"Alice shared their communiqué with me at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, where paintings by Morisot and her friend Edouard Manet are currently on display in Manet & Morisot (runs through March 1). As we entered the exhibit hall, Alice explained that Berthe Morisot's paintings are "currently half the focus of the exhibit here, and share the hall with 19th century painter Manet's canvases. The Brigade named after Morisot is a late 20th century creation affiliated with the Guerrilla Girls.""
"The GGs are women painters, sculptors, photographers, maybe even an art critic or two, who keep their identities secret. In the past, some of them wore gorilla masks in public to speak about their guerrilla campaign against curator and gallery owner biases. For decades they've called on museums and art galleries to show work by a more diverse group of artists."
Alice the Anarchist received an urgent communiqué from the Bertha Morisot Brigade of the Guerrilla Girls, named after the 19th-century painter Berthe Morisot. The Brigade last surfaced in the art world about 40 years ago, then went underground, and resurfaced this week to contact Alice. Alice shared the communiqué at San Francisco's Legion of Honor during the Manet & Morisot exhibit, where Morisot's paintings share the hall with Manet's canvases. The Brigade is a late 20th-century creation affiliated with the Guerrilla Girls. The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous women artists and critics who used gorilla masks, satirical posters, and wry protest statements to call out curator and gallery owner biases and to demand greater diversity in museum and gallery exhibitions.
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