Beneath the Mask

Shapiro’s journey through the art world is a storied one.by Amanda ManitachSomewhere in Manhattan, sometime in the mid 1980s: a friend invited Ann Leda Shapiro to a clandestine gathering of nameless, faceless women at an artist’s loft. “Come to this meeting,” she was told. “We’re pissed off. We’re going to do something.” It turned out to be the beginning of the Guerrilla Girls.
Shapiro kept the secret of her involvement for 40 years; she will still