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How Are Artists Getting Paid?

How are artists who have been systematically denied fair wages and access to basic services like healthcare and unemployment protections gaining access to those things today?

News

Contract Workers at Smithsonian Protest Low Wages

Some 50 food service workers at the Smithsonian museums went on strike yesterday, in protest of their less-than-livable wages, but the institution tried to spin the story.

News

Worker Strike Disrupts UK Museums

A widespread worker strike across the UK has delayed openings and shut down galleries at dozens of major museums across the country. The series of three daylong strikes happening yesterday, today, and Sunday are part of a larger action coordinated by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) ag

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How a Little-Known Mexican Film Mirrors the Labor Struggles of Today

LOUISVILLE — Music Unwound remains a provocative commentary on the history of music, politics, and performance—specifically the role of human capital in the creation and consumption of culture. Given this layered content, it seemed very contentious to present it here in Louisville.

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Andrea Bowers Protest Letters Taken Down Overnight at Frieze [UPDATE]

The labor headache continued apace on Randall's Island this morning, as Susanne Vielmetter arrived at her eponymous gallery to find Andrea Bowers's much-discussed protest letters taken down and the entrance of her cube cordoned off by a white string. "I'm shocked," she told Hyperallergic, "I never e

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The Bubble and the Rat: A Visit to Frieze New York

Visiting Frieze New York on Randall's Island is like being sucked into a black hole. You get on a ferry (or a bus, or a bike), enter a giant, spacious tent, and then time stops. Or it disappears. Or it slips away. Next thing you know, you stumble out dehydrated and drunk off your speakeasy cocktail

News

Teamsters Shift Course, Frieze Sponsor Deutsche Bank Now a Target

According to documents received by Hyperallergic, the Teamsters have decided to renege on their announcement, made at last month's City Hall press conference, to not target Deutsche Bank in their ongoing challenge of Frieze New York's labor practices.

Art

What's Going on at the SF Fine Arts Museums?

For more than six months, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have been in the news nonstop. Robert Flynn Johnson, the museums' curator emeritus, summed it up pretty well when he called the museums' situation “a state of Orwellian dysfunction.” And that's just the news that's been reported.

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Labor Issues in Spotlight as Frieze NY Prepares for May Art Fair [UPDATE]

New York City councilmembers and labor leaders, united under the auspices of Teamsters Joint Council 16, gave a press conference on the steps of City Hall yesterday, again blasting the use of non-union labor for Frieze Art Fair on Randall’s Island.

Opinion

Indianapolis Museum of Art in Jeopardy?

In the last few years the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) has developed a deserved national and international reputation. The IMA’s 100 acre Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, which opened in 2010, is one of the largest contemporary sculpture parks in the world, and one of the only such parks

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A Clear Set of Demands: How to Be a Constituency of Artists

So far this year I’ve been to two different events that highlight different but related approaches to political organizing among artists here in New York. Just to clarify what I mean by organizing — literally bringing individual artists together into a larger community that can advocate for and crea

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Recovering the History of the Puerto Rican Art Workers' Coalition

A few times during her talk last week, historian and curator Yasmin Ramírez looked over at the copy of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era by Julia Bryan-Wilson sitting on the table in front of her. It wasn’t a look of love. Each time she referenced the book it was, at least in part