The Masked Vanguard: The Guerrilla Girls and the Art of Resistance In the vibrant, often turbulent landscape of 1980s New York City, a new kind of artistic force emerged—not from the quiet sanctity of private studios, but from the loud, confrontational streets. The Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous collective of feminist artists, arrived as a visceral response to the suffocating atmosphere of sexism and racial bias that defined the contemporary art world. Their genesis was rooted in a profound act of defiance: a protest against the Museum of Modern Art’s board of directors, a group then comprise…