Reception
In a 1985 panel discussion with the group at Cooper Union, Art dealer Holly Solomon questioned their wearing of gorilla masks asking:
Why do they have to wear such ugly things like gorilla masks, why can't they wear Cinderella masks?
With international appearances the reception has varied; students in a small town in Indiana threw things while the Guerrilla Girls presented, in contrast to visits to the Art Institute of Chicago, which they described as being "treated like rock stars."
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)