“Six of the seven permanently laid off workers played key roles in last year’s effort to win union recognition and improve working conditions,” Local 814 tells Hyperallergic.
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In Long Island City, Local Artists Go Big and Bold
At the Queens neighborhood’s 4th Annual Fall Open Studios & Salon, artists favored installation, mixed media, and sculpture.
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Artist Phil Collins Withdraws From MoMA PS1 Exhibition in Solidarity With Prison Divestment
The video artist withdrew from Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011 days ahead of its public opening.
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Art Handlers in Long Island City Lose Union Vote by a Margin of Three Votes
Employees of UOVO, a high-end art logistics company, launched a campaign to organize with Teamsters Local 814 earlier this month.
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Art Handlers Rally in Long Island City Ahead of a Union Vote
“The tactics used against us have been brutal, nasty, coercive,” said one of the workers employed by UOVO, a high-end art logistics company. “What we’re asking for is just the ability to bargain as equals.”
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A Cabinet of Rarities at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair
Amid the many exhibits at Printed Matter’s annual art book fair, a booth from Fournier Fine & Rare stands out with rare books and archival gems.
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This Program Gives NYC Art Teachers Free Supplies for the New School Year
Materials for the Arts in Long Island City hosts its fifth annual Back to School Shopping Spree initiative, offering art teachers in public schools reusable items for their classes as an alternative to bearing the cost of art supplies.
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Landmarked Pepsi-Cola Sign in Queens Temporarily Hosts JetBlue Ad
What do we call an advertisement that becomes and advertisement for another advertisement? Postmodernism?
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Monthly Event Hopes to Unify Long Island City Art Spaces
Gallery Nights, organized by LIC Arts Open, brings neighborhood art spaces together every month for after-hour events and exhibitions, encouraging connectivity between cultural spaces and the local community.
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The Searing Beauty of Nancy Spero
With their free interplay of image and text, Spero’s Codex Artaud and the even more ambitious Notes in Time are nothing less than a personal redefinition of the nature and meaning of visual art.
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SculptureCenter Presents Banu Cennetoğlu and In Practice: Other Objects
Cennetoğlu’s first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. is on view alongside a group exhibition presented through SculptureCenter’s open call commissioning program.
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Amazon Accused of Artwashing HQ2 Negotiations in Activist Petition
The Artist Studio Affordability Project (ASAP) says city officials are helping the corporate behemoth steamroll dissent.