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Okay. I know I said I wasn’t going to write to you while I was on vacation, AND I try hard not to ask you for money using backstory, but this just came up…
Anonymity has always been a signature of the Guerrilla Girls’ practice. That said, many, many years ago, I was sitting in my office here at the Neuberger with one of the Guerrilla Girls: she had come to speak to a class of mine and was taking a break prior. I left the room, and, when I returned, she was sitting there with her mask off.
It’s hot. It’s humid. The traffic on the Hutch in Mamaroneck…why, why is it always like that?
If you haven’t had a chance to see Taking Collective Discontent to the Street: Nicolás de Jesús’s Street Banners there’s more time. We’re extending it until August 16.