A Call for the Immediate Resignation of all the Rockefellers from the Museum of Modern Art’s Board of Trustees

In this written demand to MoMA, the Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG) claimed a group of hyper-rich people had controlled the museum’s policies since the time of its foundation: “They use art as a disguise, a cover for their brutal involvement in all spheres of the war machine”. This was the first part of Action 3, the initiative through which GAAG called for the Rockefellers’ resignation from MOMA’s Board of Trustees. The second part, Communique, specified the action, known as Bloodbath, carried out by four GAAG members on November 18 1969: in the centre of MoMA’s lobby, they threw 100 copies of the demand on the floor. Ripping each other’s clothes off, they yelled and screamed gibberish, but with the occasional coherent cry of “Rape”. They also spilled blood — five litres of beef blood strapped to their bodies in plastic bags — over themselves and stained the documents scattered on the floor.