
The Guerrilla Girls Get Shut Out At Frieze Art Fair
Season 3 Episode 35 | 3mVideo has Closed Captions
We follow the Guerrilla Girls as they visit Frieze Art Fair in London.
We follow the Guerrilla Girls as they visit Frieze Art Fair in London to share their new campaign with collectors and gallerists. This is what went down.
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The Guerrilla Girls Get Shut Out At Frieze Art Fair
Season 3 Episode 35 | 3mVideo has Closed Captions
We follow the Guerrilla Girls as they visit Frieze Art Fair in London to share their new campaign with collectors and gallerists. This is what went down.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC PLAYING] Most people here will have no [BEEP] idea who we are, as usual.
[MUSIC PLAYING] I see Frieze as the belly of the beast.
The art world has evolved into an arena of investment.
And people who run at these American museums, who are on the boards of directors, who actually fuel the collecting of museums, are all investors in art.
And art has become so expensive that to have these public institutions, in a way, subsidizing that market situation is really annoying to us.
And we asked the question, can we really allow a small handful of really wealthy people tell us what the history of our art is?
We're planning to take one of our new campaigns, sneak around, put it up various places-- in people's booths, in the bathrooms-- give things out to people going to the Fair, and just see what happens.
Hey.
Would you like to put up some stickers for us?
Our new anti-billionaire campaign?
Sure.
Thank you.
OK. Go for it.
GUERRILLA GIRL 1 (VOICEOVER): All the articles about the Fair, including the articles about us, have all been about how more and more, a very few super wealthy people are controlling art.
And the people at Frieze are some of those people.
So we're hoping to give some things to them as well.
Sure.
Nice.
Thank you.
We have to give you this, and you have to display it.
[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] Hey there.
Hi.
Hello.
Love you girls.
Hey, love you.
Oh.
Thank you.
[LAUGHING] He's doing a deal as he's talk-- walking.
[LAUGHING] Sort of looks like a shopping mall, doesn't it?
It is.
It looks like a shopping mall.
GUERRILLA GIRL 1 (VOICEOVER): If we're in an art neighborhood, particularly in New York, people come up, and they want us to kiss their babies, who are usually scared to death, and we feel guilty about it.
But people-- everyone wants to talk to us, and say thank you and say hi and tell us what they're doing.
[CHATTER] 61 00:02:18,450 --> 00:02:19,654 Is this the lounge?
This is crazy.
Why don't we stop for a minute?
Anyone need some stickers-- Ladies.
- -to put up?
Yes.
You're not allowed to hand out any material inside the Fair [INAUDIBLE].
Who told you that?
I've just been told by the Fair director.
OK.
So you cannot hand out any-- OK. - -information at all.
OK, fine.
If you want to put those both in your bags?
Yes.
We're putting them in our bags.
Do not worry.
We get it.
OK. OK. We've been shut out.
We can't hand anything out here.
I heard that.
So I guess that's-- So-- - -the official-- So that's it.
- -response to the Guerrilla Girls at Frieze Art Fair.
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