Art Review
Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane
An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.
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The Slouching Beast of Southern California
Alternately ominous and transcendent, Doug Aitken’s panoramic Lightscape cycles through scenes of human movement enthralled by highways and city streets.
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What Gagosian's Move to the Marciano Art Foundation's Old Space Means for the Shuttered Museum
The private museum has two more months to forge a new direction before its tax-exempt status could be revoked.
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Marciano Art Foundation Settles Lawsuit Over Visitor Services Layoffs
A mediator's proposal said that MAF will pay $205,481 to the 70 plaintiffs and $70,000 in attorney fees.
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"Guess Who Laid Us Off?": Art Workers Stage Protests on Black Friday
Former employees of the Marciano Art Foundation gathered at Rodeo Drive's Guess storefront to distribute flyers about their unionization attempt. Union members staged simultaneous actions in solidarity on the East Coast.
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Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Picket a Dinner Hosted by Marciano Brothers
Usually prepped to dole out exhibition information to museum art-goers, last night the workers had a 400-dollar a plate dinner to protest and pedestrians to inform.
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Laid-Off Marciano Art Foundation Employees Focus Their Attention on a LAXART Board Member
Since 2016, Olivia Marciano has served as the Foundation’s Artistic Director and is today a board member at the arts nonprofit LAXART. Former employees are demanding she speak up.
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Marciano Art Foundation Workers Protest Mass Layoffs and Sudden Shuttering of the Museum
Around 50 workers assembled to protest the foundation’s announcement that it would be laying off its visitor services staff and shuttering its doors to the public. These developments came only days after a group of employees made public their decision to unionize.
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Marciano Art Foundation Abruptly Closes in Wake of Unionization Effort
Citing low attendance, the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles announced its decision to close indefinitely. The closure came just days after 60 employees publicly announced intentions to unionize.