Pop Quiz Update
- Artist: Guerrilla Girls
- Date: 2016
- Medium: Digital print on paper
- Dimensions: support: 459 x 612 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is the “Pop Quiz Update” by the Guerrilla Girls, a 2016 digital print on paper measuring about 459 × 612 mm. The piece flashes bright pinks and yellows, the typical backdrop for their sharp, data‑driven text. It’s a continuation of their long‑running campaign to expose gender, racial, and homophobic biases in art institutions. The Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous collective of women artists who first launched a street‑poster movement in 1985, hide behind gorilla masks and use the names of celebrated dead women like Frida Kahlo and Gertrude Stein to amplify their message. Here, the poster asks quick, punchy questions that force viewers to confront the stark disparities still present in museums and galleries worldwide. The print is on loan from the Tate Americas Foundation, courtesy of the North American Acquisitions Committee.
See it in person
Pop Quiz Update is in the collection of Tate Modern on Bankside, London — free to enter. Point your phone at any artwork there and audioguide.london plays a free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
