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GUERRILLA GIRLS

For decades, these feminist avengers have created posters, billboards, and more decrying the art world’s deficit of women and minorities. We assume female artists created most of the work on view at this retrospective at Columbia College—but with those gorilla masks, who can be sure?

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3/1–4/21 The notorious feminist avengers are back, filling two gallery spaces with videos, posters, and banners featuring the artists in their signature gorilla masks. The exhibits also include a selection of the group’s favorite love notes and hate mail.

3/1 The curator Neysa Page-Lieberman leads a Q&A with the Guerrilla Girls at the Conaway Center. At 6.

A+D Gallery, 619 S Wabash, and Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S Wabash. colum.edu.

Photograph: Tom Nowak Kathe

This article appears in the March 2012 issue of Chicago magazine.

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