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Sculpture Couple Under an Umbrella by Ron Mueck showing two figures huddled together under shelter, expressing intimacy, care, and protection.

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October 8, 2025

When Institutions Cower

A photographer next to Ron Mueck’s 2013 sculpture Couple Under an Umbrella. The piece captures intimacy and[…]

Guerilla Girls is a collective of anonymous female artists who have used malicious compliance and resistance to challenge sexism and inequality in the art world. One of their most famous works, "Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met Museum?" (1989), followed advertising conventions but subverted them by exposing gender disparities in museum collections.

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May 12, 2025

Resistance. Malicious compliance. Dissidence.

Art endures because courage endures Some believe the arts have the power to affect change. Others see[…]