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Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence
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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Nomad MFA Course Culminates With Fourth Episode of Hydrofeminist METitations Podcast
First-year grad students produced this episode of the listening series, which originated as part of Ensayos’s “Coastal Curriculum” during the collective’s residency at the New Museum.
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Rhizome Board Member Resigns In Protest of Workplace Culture at New Museum
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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Peter Saul, American Gadfly
Before he turned 30, it was clear that Saul had found his subject: an American society deeply rooted in consumerism, pervasive racism, and toxic masculinity.
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New Museum Faces Charges of Unfair Labor Practices in a Union Complaint
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
“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
Both museums received Paycheck Protection Program loans in the millions.
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Artists Parody New Museum, Calling Out Its “Political Inaction”
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
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
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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Hear Hans Haacke Discuss His Six-Decade Career
The artist is nothing if not defiant, and his talk at the New York's New Museum will introduce his first major U.S. exhibition in 33 years.
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After Strained Negotiations, New Museum Signs Five-Year Contract With Union Workers
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.