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:
“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)
“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)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)