linguistjudy shepard—kegl, who documented the emergence of a new language.85, a group of anonymous women artists revolutionised the new york art scene with a campaign against sexism. dressed in gorilla masks, they fly—posted the city, demanding greater representation of women artists in galleries. the posters ignited such an argument and a dialogue — pro, con, whatever — and everyone wanted to know who we were. back in the mid—�*80s, the museum of modern art opened an exhibition that they entitled "an international survey of painting and sculpture", with 169 artists, only 17 women and only eight artists of colour, and we had been noticing for a long time that the art world pretended to be more progressive and liberal than it really was. you know, we were artists in the new york art world, and we were afraid that our involvement with this would influence how people saw our individual work, but we quickly realised that it was a great secret of our success cos it was a delicious mystery. museumgoers and art lovers thought that museums knew best. and if you were