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"You Can't Eat Prestige": Brooklyn Museum Workers Demand Better Wages
Union members called for salary increases and pledged to hold the museum accountable to “its lip-service to social justice.”
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MoMA’s Cruel Offer to Unionized Workers During the Pandemic
The museum offered some workers the option to forgo pay raises in exchange for keeping their jobs, union members told Hyperallergic.
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The Seductive Music of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Ultimately the legacy of the classic modernist novel may reside in how attentively and scrupulously it concentrates on the music of tentative, shambolic, open-ended urban lives.
Art
Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Whatever else Mire Lee's Carriers is about, it seems to me that has to do with sending you back into yourself, which is not necessarily a soothing place.
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Come Study at the University at Buffalo’s MFA and MA Programs
Funding options at UB include full-tuition scholarships for MFA students, the Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship Program, and additional opportunities for MA students.
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Poeticizing and Politicizing Black and Asian American Abstraction
Columbia University exhibition thwarts the de-politicization of postwar abstract art with a series of provocative questions.
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Low Morale Plagues Visitor Services Workers at the Whitney Museum
The menial work, combined $17/hour pay, no benefits, and a lack of support from higher-ups has reportedly led to severe staff shortages.
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Three Arrested in Protest at New York's Asia Society
A group of artists and writers denounced the center for hosting Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of the country's former dictator.
Art
Eroticism Beyond the Flesh
Eros Rising at New York’s Institute for Studies on Latin American Art demonstrates that eroticism might be closer to the cosmic than to the terrestrial in its infinite manifestations.
Art
Jordan Casteel Won't Rest on Her Laurels
I was curious to see Casteel's first exhibition since her New Museum show. I was not disappointed.
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Guerrilla Tenant Group Papers NYC in Anti-Eviction Posters
The Tomato Season collective’s campaign, titled “SHAME,” calls attention to the city marshals who enforce evictions, utility shut-offs, and foreclosures, exacerbating the housing crisis.
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Poster House Presents Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes
Curated by RJ Rushmore, this NYC exhibition features David Wojnarowicz, Swoon, and other artists who use posters to question beauty standards, capitalism, and ownership of public space.