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Art

The Growing Tide Against Unpaid Internships

Internships have largely remained outside the conversation about diversity and equality in museums. Economist Richard Reeves is bent on changing that.

Art

Things to Know and Consider Before Taking an Unpaid Internship

A few years ago I worked at a commercial art gallery on the Lower East Side as the communications manager. In this role I was responsible for interviewing our unpaid interns, hiring them, and supervising their daily tasks.

Opinion

Why We Need the Getty's Multicultural Internship Program

There's a saying: "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

In Brief

White Woman Sues Getty Foundation Over Multicultural Internship Program

Rejection sure is tough, especially when you're a white applicant vying for a spot in a museum internship program that's explicitly open only to minority groups.

Art

A New Afterlife for Cemeteries: Training Future Preservationists

The sprawling 19th-century cemeteries whose monuments and mausoleums dot the United States are often short on hands to preserve their heritage.

Opinion

British Museum Wants Someone to Update Its Website for Free [UPDATED]

The British Museum is a flagship cultural institution with 2013 expenditures of £115.4 million (~$186.2 million). It is also, according to a current online listing, seeking free help from experienced coders in the guise, naturally, of an internship or "student placement" with its "Digital Team."

News

Ontario Reins In Unpaid Magazine Internships

The Ontario provincial government has begun cracking down on unpaid internships at magazines, shutting down programs at The Walrus, Toronto Life, Fashion Magazine, and Quill & Quire, the Toronto Star reported.

Opinion

Unpaid Work Alert: Performa Seeks Writers [UPDATED]

Yesterday over email, Performa publicized a call they'd announced a few weeks earlier, seeking writers-in-residence for 2014. The catch? The positions are unpaid.

News

Santa's Con: Protestors Challenge Serpentine Gallery on Unpaid Labor

Over the weekend, an activist group calling itself Future Interns descended upon the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park. Their objection, the Guardian reports, was to yet another instance of the art economy's exploitative labor model: uncompensated, administrative work under the guise of inter

News

Spike Lee Doesn't Do the Right Thing [UPDATED]

When famed film director Spike Lee launched a Kickstarter project for "The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint" this past summer, we rolled our eyes. But when Spike Lee hires unpaid interns and steals a designer's work — well, then we feel compelled to say something.

Art

Five Things I Learned While Teaching a Class on Arts and Labor

In August and September I facilitated a class focused on labor issues within the arts. Specifically, we looked at how and when artists receive or don’t receive payment for their work, and the broader implications of compensating artists. Because there was such a great mix of students in the class wo

Opinion

Unpaid Interns Fight Back

In a big victory for unpaid internship lawsuits, a federal judge ruled last Tuesday that two interns who worked on the movie Black Swan for Fox Searchlight Pictures should have been paid. Federal District Court Judge William H. Pauley III sided with the former interns, Eric Glatt and Alexander Footm