The Miraculous The Miraculous: New York
72. (Various walls around the city)
One day in 1986, more than a dozen years after Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, and Cardiss Collins have been elected to Congress, a group of artists, activists, and art historians who keep their identities secret by donning gorilla masks surreptitiously plaster the walls of the city with a poster noting, in thick sans serif type: “Only 4 Commercial Galleries in N.Y. Show Black Women. Only 1 Shows More Than 1.”
(The Guerilla Girls)