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:
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“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)