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Storm King Workers Push Unionization Amid Art Center’s $45 M. Revamp – ARTnews.com

Employees at the Storm King Art Center, a sculpture park in upstate New York, announced plans to unionize late last month, the Art Newspaper reported Tuesday. The move follows the non-profit’s announcement in August of a $45 million revamp of its campus. Staff organizers, who come across numerous departments of the outdoor destination, detailed their plans to join the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA), ...

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Activists Are Leading the Global Push to Repatriate Looted Artifacts – ARTnews.com

Sixty-two years ago, the small Indian town of Thanjavur woke up to devastating news. A 2,000-year-old temple in the city had been looted, and its much-loved deity was missing. Police in India say that the centuries-old statue of the dancing Hindu god Shiva (Natarajar) now resides over 2,000 miles away, within the walls of the Asia Society and Museum in New York. All across ...

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Tacoma Art Museum Workers Push to Unionize—and More Art News – ARTnews.com

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. Have you had enough of AI-generated art? Well, so have some artists. Business Insider took a deep dive into the case of artists who claim that their work is being copied by AI image generators. “I feel like something’s happening that I can’t control,” said artist Greg Rutkowski. He’s not alone. IGN reports that AT, ...

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago Adjuncts Push to Unionize – ARTnews.com

Non-tenure-track faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the nation’s biggest art schools, said on Tuesday that they planned to join an ongoing unionization effort at the college. They announced their intention to unionize in a letter signed by around 200 lecturers and non-ranked adjuncts at the school. The letter was posted on Tuesday by the Art Institute of ...

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What I Buy and Why: Mashonda Tifrere on the Art That Reminds Her of Childhood, and Her Favorite ‘Push Present’

Curator and art advisor Mashonda Tifrere has been collecting art since she was 18, when she signed her first music publishing deal in 1999. Highlights of her music career include being a featured performer on a Jay-Z single and a role as part of the original cast of VH1 reality show Love & Hip Hop: New York. Since 2016, she’s been channelling her love of ...

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Naama Tsabar’s Sonic Art Requires Viewers to Push Through Museum Walls – ARTnews.com

Sound travels through mysterious channels in Naama Tsabar’s latest exhibition, “Perimeters,” on view at The Bass in Miami through April 16. For the show, the Israeli-born, New York–based artist will occupy the museum’s galleries with new, site-specific iterations of four bodies of work. Tsabar’s art occupies an intersection of sculpture, performance, and architecture that will transform the museum itself into a playable instrument. Taken ...

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Baltimore Museum of Art Workers Push to Unionize – ARTnews.com

Employees at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland said on Tuesday that they were initiating the process of unionizing, joining a workers’ rights movement that has taken hold in institutions across the country over the past few years. A union spokesperson said 120 workers from departments include conservation, installation, marketing, and visitor services were involved in the drive. The Baltimore Museum workers are ...

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Guggenheim Curators Push to Unionize as Organized Labor Gains Steam in Museums + Other Stories

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Monday, August 2. NEED-TO-READ Germany Grants Quarantine Exemption to Artists – Germany’s cultural council has just made it easier for artists to enter the country under new travel rules. Artists traveling from high-risk areas will ...

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Brooklyn Museum Workers Push to Form Union – ARTnews.com

Employees at the Brooklyn Museum are taking steps toward forming a union, continuing a wave of organizing that has swept New York institutions over the past few years. Workers at the museum are seeking increased job security, higher wages, and greater transparency. The New York Times reported that about 130 employees were involved in the bargaining unit, among them curators, conservators, editors, fundraisers, educators, ...

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Calida Rawles’s Paintings of Water Push the Boundaries of Portraiture – ARTnews.com

In Calida Rawles’ world, Black bodies rise through sunlight and waves. The Los Angeles–based artist has earned widespread recognition for her exacting, ethereal depictions of water. Fittingly, Rawles’s work appeared on the cover of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel The Water Dancer in 2019. In her painting, a Black man is submerged in water. His arms are outstretched and curved like wings. The quiet of ...

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