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Unions Reach Tentative Agreements at Brooklyn Museum and American Folk Art Museum
Potentially averting strike action, both unions are set to vote on ratifying the tentative agreements with their respective museums starting today, September 29.
Rhea Nayyar
Rhea Nayyar (she/her) is a New York City-based staff reporter at Hyperallergic. She received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has a passion for small-scale artworks, elevating minority perspectives, and dogspotting at art world events.
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Art in Odd Places Participants Seek Utopia Under Dark Clouds
The public art festival’s 21st edition unfolded across 14th Street throughout the nor’easter this past weekend.
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Whitney Museum Union Sets Strike Date Ahead of Major Roy Lichtenstein Show
“We’d rather be working and doing our jobs, but our wages are untenable for making ends meet in New York City,” said the union's chairperson.
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Museum of the City of New York Inaugurates New Activism Center
Two exhibitions at the Puffin Foundation Center chronicle 250 years of organizing, social movements, and civic engagement in the city.
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Spring Break Art Show Tackles Life's Crushing Burdens
Fair participants touch on politics and current events through their own lens and invite others to do the same.
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Met Museum Brokers Return of Three Artworks to Nigeria
Collector Ceil Pulitzer provided detailed provenance of the works, but the museum preferred another route.
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Armory Week is Here
What to expect in one of the busiest art weeks of the fall season.
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10 Public Artworks to See Across the US This Fall
Camille Henrot’s pack of dogs take Central Park, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz leads a procession through Philadelphia, and Sara Genn paints the sky in Santa Fe.
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Naomi Beckwith Says She's "Not Afraid" of Pro-Palestine Protest at Documenta 16
“People have a right to protest and express their opinions,” the curator told Die Zeit, revealing that some artists have declined to participate in the exhibition over “Germany's position on the Gaza war.”
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Liu Wei’s Met Facade Commission Reflects Our Moment
On view through next June, Liu's sculpture series “Speculation” (2026) contemplates the contradictory elements of collapse and civic transformation.
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Visiting the Bayeux Tapestry? Put Your Camera Away
The British Museum has reversed its policy on allowing photography of the near-thousand-year-old work.
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Your Cheat Sheet to NYC’s Fall Art Fairs
From the classic Armory Show to Spring Break to an emerging art fair held in an Italian design showroom.