Museum Unions
V&A Museum Staff Set to Strike Across All Four London Sites
Allegations of “Amazon-style” working conditions and calls for pay raises prompted unionized workers to authorize yet another strike at the UK museum network.
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Art Fairs
Ah, the Many Smells of Frieze London
Among them champagne, new money, and an artist’s custom-scented bathroom installations.
Art Review
Richard Dadd’s Strange and Delicate Worlds
Though he is known primarily for his work of fantastical landscapes and mystical woodland creatures, a new retrospective tells the full story.
News
British Museum to Provide Bayeux Tapestry Audio Tour After Lawsuit
Yusuf Ali Osman, a man with no sight, filed a suit against the museum under the UK's anti-discrimination Equality Act.
Art Review
Anish Kapoor Is a One-Trick Illusionist
What does the British artist have to offer beyond monumental scale and costly optical illusions?
News
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.
Art Review
Madelon Vriesendorp’s Subconscious Cities
An exhibition explores the creativity and imagination of an artist whose way of seeing influences architects and artists.
News
Activists Protest Bayeux Tapestry Sponsor’s Ties to Israeli Settlements
Demonstrators at the British Museum decried billionaire Igor Tulchinsky’s financing of a community center in an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank.
News
Tschabalala Self’s Splendid “Lady in Blue” Graces London’s Fourth Plinth
Self said the figure is “not an idol to venerate or a historical figure to commemorate,” but rather “an everyday woman like the many who occupy the square daily.”
News
Striking Workers Shutter Three V&A London Locations
Unionized staff at the Victoria and Albert Museum staged a two-day strike last weekend, citing “Amazon-style” working conditions.
News
What in the Devil Was Peter Thiel Doing at the British Museum?
For reasons that remain unclear, the London museum hosted the Palantir founder at a VIP preview of the Bayeux Tapestry.
News
Famed “Portrait of Omai” Will Go on View at LA’s Getty Museum
The Sir Joshua Reynolds painting, acquired in a joint deal by the Getty and the National Portrait Gallery in London after a heated controversy, will be on display starting September 14.