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Amin Husain and Nitasha Dhillon on Working to Decolonize the Art World

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian September 25, 2020April 13, 2022

In this two-part conversation, two of the leading activists in the New York art community talk about their lives, work, and what’s next.

Posted inNews

Protesters Shame Guggenheim and Its Trustees with Light Projections [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne April 28, 2016May 3, 2016

Last night, in a visually dazzling act of public protest, the artist-activist groups Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) and the Illuminator turned the spiral facade of the Guggenheim Museum into a projection screen.

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G.U.L.F. Occupies Israeli Pavilion in Venice, Calls for Cultural Boycott [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian August 3, 2015August 17, 2015

Yesterday the Gulf Labor Coalition, which is an official participant of the central exhibition of the 2015 Venice Biennale, and the G.U.L.F. (Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction) group staged a variety of protest actions at the international exhibition.

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The Guggenheim and Protesters Both Respond to #GuggOccupied in Venice

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 9, 2015May 9, 2015

VENICE — Friday’s three-hour occupation of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice by arts and activists organizations resulted in a brief meeting between a number of protesters and members of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection staff.

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Art Protest Groups Join Forces for Guerrilla Ribbon-cutting at New Whitney Museum

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian April 15, 2015April 19, 2015

Last night, The Illuminator was in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to project mayday messages on the facade of the soon-to-be-opened Whitney Museum, while a group of two dozen protesters supported by 23 sponsoring organizations launched a guerrilla inauguration for the “fracked gas pipe museum.”

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Liveblogging ‘The Artist as Debtor’ Conference

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian January 23, 2015January 30, 2015

We’re at Cooper Union today to liveblog the ‘The Artist as Debtor: A Conference about the Work of Artists in the Age of Speculative Capitalism’ event.

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Accounting for Artists’ Debt

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian January 22, 2015January 26, 2015

On Friday, January 23, some of the most progressive thinkers on the topic of the financial realities facing artists will be convening in the Great Hall of Manhattan’s Cooper Union university to explore a topic largely ignored in the art world, the artist as debtor.

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Activists Picket Guggenheim Gala over Labor Abuses

by Mostafa Heddaya November 7, 2014November 10, 2014

Amid a phalanx of black-clad attendants, security, and ushers, the Guggenheim Museum welcomed guests to its annual International Gala. But not all who landed at the November 6 event were invited.

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Protesters Unfurl Three-Story Banner in Guggenheim Museum

by Mostafa Heddaya November 5, 2014November 9, 2014

A thirty-nine-foot banner was unfurled in the rotunda of a sparsely-attended Guggenheim Museum this evening, the latest action carried out by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Front (G.U.L.F.) activist group.

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Protesters Stage Intervention at Guggenheim’s Futurist Exhibition

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian May 25, 2014May 27, 2014

Last night’s protest action at New York’s Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group’s fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates.

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Protesters Rain Down Thousands of Bills in Guggenheim Rotunda

by Mostafa Heddaya March 30, 2014April 2, 2014

At 6:45 pm ET yesterday evening, a handheld bell sounded in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, signaling the second protest action in as many months from the Global Ultra Luxury Faction, or G.U.L.F.

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Activists Take Protest to the Facade of the Guggenheim Museum [UPDATED]

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian March 25, 2014March 28, 2014

The OWS Illuminator, that infamous visual symbol of Occupy Wall Street, joined Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (aka G.U.L.F.) yesterday in their fight for workers’s rights on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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