Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Laura Fitzpatrick. Today I'm bringing you the story of a group of anonymous women artists who took to the streets and revolutionized the New York art scene of the 1980s.

I've been speaking to two of the Gorilla Girls.

One of the more unusual sites to be seen in the streets of New York City is women wearing

Gorilla M masks fly posting.

Women are the guerrilla girls and their posters are stylish and witty attacks on what

they see as the male domination of the American art market.

The guerrilla girls were artists fed up with sexism and racism that they saw in museums and galleries, not just in America, but around the world.

They started in 1985 as a small group, but then grew to have about 60 members. The women

decided it was time to shout about the inequality they were seeing.

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 8 artists of color.

And we looked at that and said, how can that be an international survey of art when it's

so predominantly white and male?

And we have been noticing for a long time that the art world was pretended to be more

...