In their 1989 poster, the group of artist-activists known as the
Guerrilla Girls highlighted a stark fact: a negligible number of
artworks by women are displayed in museums, while nude
paintings predominantly represent female bodies.
Thirty years later, the situation has hardly improved. In most
major museums, works by women artists comprise only 10
percent of the exhibited pieces. This figure drops to 1 percent
in the collection of the British National Gallery.