Only picking out the tiny Guerrilla Girls portion of your fine rant to go further. Mho, except for their masks, they were never that funny, more like deadly serious, cause the situation was plenty grim when they started their act. (As in the kind of attitude Kathy Griffin was unfairly being blamed for, when Griffin was actually trying to go more on hah hah funny side of things via exaggeration.)

So I am taking it off thread because their work is no longer funny, apologies to barefooted. What I see in their "Europe" theme is this: their work is less needed in the U.S. now, really.

Most of the major museums in the U.S. with any acquisition funds have strictly gone way over to the p.c. side, seriously, not joking. Some have actual rules set by trustees that from now and for the foreseeable future acquisitions should not be works by white males but by female artists or artists of color, and one specific term being used is to prioritize "gender parity in collections." When a friend that sells historic decorative arts often to museums told me a couple years back that several were going "gender parity" I went "no way, are you shitting me?" He said: not shitting you, it's serious. I still didn't believe it. But I see now in all I read about museum world and the art market is that: it's true.

This has directly affected the art market, anyone who watches auction prices like I do can see it: in general works by well-known female artists of any time period show incredible gains in prices over the last couple of years as compared to lifetime reccords, while the prices of classic works by males are either stagnant or even languishing below previous records.

The big museum world and top curatorial practice has become very p.c., the Guerrilla Girls won, their work is done, the one basically admits it in the interview Käthe Kollwitz: People are totally interested. It’s just the powers that be that are stubborn in their ways, but if you go to most cultural institutions you’ll find a lot of well-meaning people who make it their mission to promote diversity

Yes, of course the Podunk Historic House Museum is going to take a while to come on board. But the big museum world is already there, almost to a fault as the practice of many years favoring males can't be made up in a fortnight with piddling funds. It would certainly to a fault to someone like Steve Bannon, it is real and it is happening here, white male artwork need not apply at the major American museums.

So the Girls are moving on to Europe. And that's why I mentioned that maybe ageism would be a better row to hoe.