How have our ideas of strike and protest changed and what should we learn about their utility today?
J20 Art Strike
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Three Lessons from Artists’ Protests of the Whitney Museum in the 1960s–70s
Activist efforts targeting the Whitney Museum of American Art across the 1960s and ’70s provide a starting point to consider the ways in which activists today can effect meaningful changes.
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A Showing of Art World Solidarity on Inauguration Day
Far from serving as an excuse for self-pity or left melancholy, the Occupy Museums event was an effective counter-inaugural: a ceremony marking a wider commitment to shared struggle.
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Required Reading: Women’s March Posters
The largest protests in US history took place yesterday, and people’s sign creativity was on full display.
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Considering the Role of University Art Museums on #J20
It is powerfully symbolic for those institutions who decide to close, just as it is powerfully symbolic for other institutions to deliberately choose to remain open.
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Let’s Use the Art Strike to Hold Cultural Institutions Accountable
The action invites us to commit to challenging our institutions to resist Trumpism and combat the conditions that allowed its emergence.
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Five Artists, Writers, and Curators Share Their Inauguration Day Plans
Everyone has to make a decision of what they will do that day and these five offered us insight into their plans.
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Occupy Museums Challenges Us to Face Fascism with the #J20 Art Strike
On the eve of the #J20 Art Strike and a solidarity event it’s organizing at the Whitney Museum, the collective has released a statement outlining art’s role in the fight against fascism in the US and around the world.
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Artists, Go Find Your Mountaintop and Yell
What one artist in the country is considering to do for the #J20 Art Strike.
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A Running List of Nationwide Art Spaces Closing for the #J20 Art Strike
Dozens of US galleries and nonprofits have announced their plans to close in solidarity with the #J20 Art Strike on Friday, January 20.
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The 1970 New York Artists’ Strike that Prefigured #J20
The #J20 Art Strike resonates with the approach of the 1970 New York Artists’ Strike against Racism, Sexism, Repression and War, also commonly referred to as the Art Strike.
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We Need to Start Now: A Personal Case for the Art Strike
Why the #J20 Art Strike is important and why those of us who can should take part.