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Artist Spray-Paints Massive Graffiti on New Museum

by Hakim Bishara March 24, 2022March 25, 2022

It’s unclear how “Acer,” as the anonymous artist is known, evaded the museum’s security officers and surveillance cameras

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Lynn Hershman Leeson, in All Her Cyborg Glory, Gets a Retrospective

by Cassie Packard August 2, 2021August 3, 2021

A foremother to young new media artists working today, Hershman Leeson has blazed a trail for more than five decades.

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On Grieving and Mourning With Art

by Seph Rodney June 3, 2021May 17, 2022

Confronted with a new national consciousness around racial inequity, two New York City art exhibitions focus on mourning with varying degrees of success.

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Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence

by Rachell Morillo March 9, 2021March 9, 2021

A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.

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Rhizome Board Member Resigns In Protest of Workplace Culture at New Museum

by Valentina Di Liscia November 6, 2020November 6, 2020

Art collector Seth Stolbun stepped down from the board of Rhizome, a New Museum affiliate, after a report revealed accusations of workplace harassment and unhealthy work conditions at the museum.

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New Museum Faces Charges of Unfair Labor Practices in a Union Complaint

by Hakim Bishara August 11, 2020December 29, 2021

The complaint, filed by Local 2110 UAW, accuses the museum of laying off bargaining unit members in a discriminatory and retaliatory act and refusing to provide necessary information.

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New Museum Recalls Some Furloughed Workers, Union Calls for Greater Reform

by Hakim Bishara August 7, 2020December 29, 2021

“As they parade around their executive pay cuts, [director] Lisa Phillips is still making at least $500,000 while 25 people now have no income and no health insurance during a pandemic,” the union said.

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Brooklyn Museum Lays Off 29 Workers; New Museum Lays Off 18

by Hakim Bishara July 8, 2020November 5, 2020

Both museums received Paycheck Protection Program loans in the millions.

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Artists Parody New Museum, Calling Out Its “Political Inaction”

by Hakim Bishara June 30, 2020November 5, 2020

The group Artists for Workers has created a website replicating that of the museum, but instead provides resources for anti-racist organizing.

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Hans Haacke Gets Hacked by Activists at the New Museum

by Hakim Bishara January 21, 2020January 22, 2020

Two hackers, an artist and a graduate student at the New School, interfered with the results of Haacke’s visitors poll at his New Museum retrospective to protest the museum’s “complacency in capitalism.”

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Hans Haacke’s Sharp Metaphors and Maps of Power

by Laura Raicovich December 16, 2019December 16, 2019

Exposing systems of injustice and how they operate is Haacke’s great skill. At the New Museum, the artist draws the connections, and we follow along, wondering what our role is in this circuit.

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After Strained Negotiations, New Museum Signs Five-Year Contract With Union Workers

by Hakim Bishara October 2, 2019December 29, 2021

The workers achieved an across-the-board pay increase of 3% in the first four years of the contract, with a 3.5% increase in the final year.

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