NEW YORK, NY.- In May, 1985, Guerrilla Girls put our their posters up on the streets of New York and everyone went bananas. They’ve been fighting discrimination and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture ever since. Some things have changed, but there is still so much to do!

Over the first two weeks of May Guerrilla Girls will open a pop-up exhibition at the Abrons Arts Center; slap up and give out stickers art-shaming billionaire collectors, galleries and museums; and make surprise appearances around town, joining forces with other activist groups to expose corruption in today’s art world. This birthday craziness will culminate in a blowout party Friday, May 15, from 8-10 pm complete with music, DJ, cake and more.

The Abrons exhibition will include almost 100 posters, stickers and billboards from 1985 to 2015, and a wall where anyone can write us a message or complain about issues they care about. There will be a video showing their projects in situ, along with clips of hotshot gallery owners making totally embarrassing statements.

Things have improved for women and artists of color over the last thirty years, but let's face it, the celebrity-obsessed art market and the galleries and museums that fuel it, really SUCK! White guys still get most of the big money, and for sure the biggest opportunities. Super rich art collectors have too much control over museums and what is collected as the art of our time. That’s a lousy way to write the history of a culture as diverse as ours.

HELP US TELL THE WHOLE STORY, WITH ALL ITS VOICES. CONSPIRE WITH US TO KEEP FEMINIST ACTIVISM ALIVE AND WELL INTO THE FUTURE!

Guerrilla Girls use facts, humor and fake fur to embarrass and transform the powers that be. At the Venice Biennale they did a large-scale installation that dissed the Biennale on its own walls. In Istanbul they predicted the future for women artists. In Montreal they called out hate speech and violence against women through the ages. In Minneapolis they revealed that Michelle Bachman secretly supports marriage equality. In June we’re headed to Reykjavik to ask why the Parliament in Iceland is more progressive than its film industry. They opened a huge retrospective in Madrid this winter, and an exhibition of work since 2000 is traveling the US. The Guerrilla Girls are authors of books that have become texts in art history and gender studies: Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls; The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion To The History of Western Art, The Guerrilla Girls Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes, and The Guerrilla Girls Art Museum Activity Book. Their message reaches enthusiastic (screaming, raucous, eager) supporters on every continent, who tell them their work inspires them to do their own creative activism.