The workers called on the museum to agree to fair wages, affordable health benefits, and job protections for employees.
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Roosevelt’s Critique of “Nude Descending a Staircase” and Other Gems in Duchamp Archive Are Now Online
The new online archive hosts 18,000 digitized documents and almost 50,000 photographs related to the artist’s life and work.
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Heirs Sue Philadelphia Museum of Art for a Piet Mondrian Painting
The artwork was looted by Nazis before it was purchased by a New York collector and friend of Mondrian, who donated it to the PMA.
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The Political Vision of South Asian Abstraction
The works in Fault Lines prove that abstraction need not be confined to the inner life of the artist.
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Senga Nengudi: Topologies Opens May 2 at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Situated at the intersection of sculpture and performance this provocative work reimagines abstract art through an exploration of the Black female body.
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When Abstraction Exploded in Form and Meaning
Can non-representational art reflect social change?
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Hosts Acclaimed Photographer Judith Joy Ross Live in Conversation With Curator Peter Barberie
The 2021 Arnold Newman Lecture is free with registration and will take place virtually on February 17 at 12pm EST.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Workers Unionize, With 89% Majority Vote
The PMA Union will become one of the largest unionized museum workforces in the country.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Concludes Workplace Assessment After Allegations of Abuse
The results of the examination, shared with staff in an online meeting on Tuesday, July 28, paint a grim picture that implicates all levels of the museum’s leadership.
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Amid Mass Furloughs, Philadelphia Museum of Art Workers Schedule Union Election
News of the election follows PMA’s announcement that it would cut over 20% of its workforce via furloughs and voluntary separation agreements.
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Report Exposes Physical Abuse Allegations Against Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Former Retail Director
Employees tell the Philadelphia Inquirer that James A. Cincotta would hit, slap, punch, pinch, and shove his colleagues to the point of bruising and tears, as well as denigrate them verbally, often in public.
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Hundreds of Philadelphia Museum of Art Workers Call for Institutional Accountability on Sexual Harassment
Over 300 former and current PMA employees signed a petition saying the recent sexual misconduct allegations against Joshua Helmer, the museum’s former assistant director of interpretation, “barely scratch the surface.”