Transcript:
Here’s an episode of we left the house with Kim and Caroline. In this series, I’m gonna leave my house and see if it was worth it.
This time we went to the Getty Museum to see how to be a Guerrilla Girl.
Do women have to be naked to get into a museum?
That’s a question the Guerrilla Girls asked in 1989.

I first learned about the group in an intro to contemporary art class I took back in college.
They’re an anonymous group of women artists who wear gorilla masks to obscure their identity, started in 1985 in New York City.
They exposed racism and sexism in the art world with posters, pamphlets, newsletters, and art installations.

For example, one of their most famous posters begs the question: do women need to be naked to be in a museum?
It calls on the double standard that most of the nude figures in the museum are usually women, but women are not represented equally as artists on display.
They even called out the Met and other major museums for its lack of women in exhibitions and leadership.
Museums are often funded by wealthy, predominantly white men, which curates what art is displayed.
The ripple effects reach every corner of the art world.

Seeing the exhibit in person instead of pieces in a textbook or online was really inspiring.
I loved seeing the drafts, the posters right now, the preliminary planning for large projects, and all of the mixed media.
It was also a reminder to me that a message and movement could be spread in other ways—social media, through people, through art, through being bold.

I also love how the exhibit confronted the Getty itself.
According to the statistics highlighted, less than 1% of their painting collection is by women, but the majority still by men.
Seeing that in context made their message hit even harder.

I think that this movement from the Guerrilla Girls is still relevant in 2026, with even space to expand the mission to lift up trans artists, artists of color, and other underrepresented voices.

But I loved it. Me and Caroline learned a lot.
We sunbathed and ate chips, and we got to catch up. Walking out, Caroline, I felt inspired, a little tired, and reminded that leaving your living room is usually worth it.

I hope you enjoyed this episode, and if you have ideas on where we should go out to next, let me know in the comments.