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Noguchi Museum Workers Vote Unanimously to Unionize
The new union said it will negotiate “for a more equitable, inclusive, and transparent workplace.”
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Noguchi Museum Workers Move to Unionize
The news comes just months after the museum terminated three employees for wearing keffiyehs, sparking widespread condemnation and protests.
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Guerrilla Wall Labels Protest Keffiyeh Ban at Noguchi Museum
“This wall is a boundary the museum uses to erase culture, banning keffiyeh and firing staff who challenge its racist views,” read one mock text.
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In Silent Action, Activists Protest Keffiyeh Ban at Noguchi Museum Gala
Masked activists greeted benefit attendees as messages like “Culture Banned Here” were projected on the institution’s facade.
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Author Jhumpa Lahiri Turns Down Noguchi Award Over Keffiyeh Ban
The Noguchi Museum in New York City terminated three workers who refused to comply with a dress code policy prohibiting the headscarves.
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Noguchi Museum Terminates Three Workers for Wearing Keffiyehs
The gallery attendants refused to comply with the museum’s new policy, which they told Hyperallergic goes against their own values and those of the institution.
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Noguchi Museum Staff Walk Out in Protest of Keffiyeh Ban
Staff say the dress code policy, which prohibits “political statements,” is anti-Palestinian and goes against the values of the artist whose legacy the museum honors.
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When Museum Workers Take Over Their Institutions' Walls
The Met’s staff art exhibition made headlines when it opened to the public last year. As it turns out, these shows are anything but rare.
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The Contentious History of a Lost Cave House in Mexico City
The destruction of “Casa Cueva,” one of Juan O’Gorman’s last architectural works, pitted two great artists against each other in one of the most divisive episodes in Mexican contemporary art history.
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Noguchi Museum Is Opening the Artist’s Studio to Visitors
The studio of the mid-century sculptor, located across from his eponymous museum in Long Island City, New York, received $4.5 million for its planned restoration and renovation.
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Remembering the Japanese American Incarceration Through Abstraction
An exhibition at the Noguchi Museum marks the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which forced over 120,000 Japanese Americans into detention camps.
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At Queens’s Noguchi Museum, Banners by Asian Artists Address Racism
Chemin Hsiao, winner of the museum's Open Call for Artist Banners, and runners-up Woomin Kim and Mo Kong discuss their designs with Hyperallergic.