Curating naked truths: Tate Modern’s Director Emerita, Frances Morris appears alongside the Guerilla Girls who are a feminist artist collective from New York City that formed in 1985. They share subversive anecdotes of transforming patriarchal representations of women in museums and debate why museums are not neutral.

Episode highlights

• Do museums tell the truth? 

• Censorship and missing stories

• Truth-telling advice for artists and curators  

#Tate #Gallery #Art #Activism #Change #HumanRights #Advocacy #cancelculture #censorship #culturewars #socialjustice

Hosted by @YasminCurates in conversation with @GuerillaGirls and Frances Morris @Tate 

Do you believe everything you see in museums? Share your thoughts and museum photos via #MuseumTruthLies.

CREDITS: Host and scriptwriter, Yasmin Khan; Executive Producer, Marie Horner; Composer, Helen A. Wilson; Sound Design, Lucy Dearlove (supported by Lucia Scazzoccio).

SPONSORS: Art South Asia Project and ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation

Recommended resources

Guerrilla Girls reveal enduring inequalities in museums and galleries at Whitechapel Gallery (2016), by Yasmin Khan, Museums + Heritage Advisor  https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/insights/guerilla-girls-reveal-enduring-inequalities-in-museums-and-galleries-at-whitechapel-gallery/ 

Tate Modern  https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/g/guerrilla-girls 

Guerilla Girls www.guerrillagirls.com 

Guerrilla Girls – 'You Have to Question What You See' | Artist Interview | TateShots (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uKg7hb2yoo

The White Pube https://thewhitepube.co.uk/