In Brief
Good news: the Marina Abramović Institute is hiring! Bad news: all four positions listed in this fresh New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) ad are unpaid — ahem, volunteer. They're probably great "opportunities," though, right?
News
The Ontario provincial government has begun cracking down on unpaid internships at magazines, shutting down programs at The Walrus, Toronto Life, Fashion Magazine, and Quill & Quire, the Toronto Star reported.
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Opinion
Yesterday over email, Performa publicized a call they'd announced a few weeks earlier, seeking writers-in-residence for 2014. The catch? The positions are unpaid.
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News
When famed film director Spike Lee launched a Kickstarter project for "The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint" this past summer, we rolled our eyes. But when Spike Lee hires unpaid interns and steals a designer's work — well, then we feel compelled to say something.
Opinion
Last week, a New York Times opinion piece fired up my Facebook newsfeed. Titled "Slaves of the Internet, Unite!" and penned by Tim Kreider, the piece pleads with writers not to indulge in that pervasive and pernicious cultural habit: writing for free.