backstory Blog


We did it again. Despite our claim that backstory will be on hiatus while Tracy is on vacation, here we are. But this time it’s not Tracy you are hearing from, it’s the person who works behind the scenes each week to help make these posts happen.
Okay. I know I said I wasn’t going to write to you while I was on vacation, AND I try hard not to ask you for money using backstory, but this just came up…
Anonymity has always been a signature of the Guerrilla Girls’ practice. That said, many, many years ago, I was sitting in my office here at the Neuberger with one of the Guerrilla Girls: she had come to speak to a class of mine and was taking a break prior. I left the room, and, when I returned, she was sitting there with her mask off.
It’s hot. It’s humid. The traffic on the Hutch in Mamaroneck…why, why is it always like that?