Good morning. ☁️ Today, an offensive job posting by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields draws
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Good morning. ☁️ Today, an offensive job posting by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields draws ire, the Guggenheim Museum signs a contract with its union, and Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair is going online.
—Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief
Guggenheim Signs Contract With Union After a Year of Tense Negotiations
Guggenheim Signs Contract With Union After a Year of Tense Negotiations
The three-year collective bargaining agreement represents the museum’s art handlers and facilities staff: 22 full-time employees and 145 on-call staff.
Hakim Bishara
1,500 Call for Museum President’s Removal After Job Posting Cites “Core, White Art Audience”
1,500 Call for Museum President’s Removal After Job Posting Cites “Core, White Art Audience”
An offensive job description seeking a new director for the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields drew ire from artists, IMA patrons, and former and current museum workers.
Valentina Di Liscia
Turkey Targets Osman Kavala’s Arts Organization in Unprecedented Lawsuit
Turkey Targets Osman Kavala’s Arts Organization in Unprecedented Lawsuit
Turkey’s Trade Ministry filed a lawsuit demanding the dissolution of Anadolu Kültür, an institution founded by Kavala in 2002.
Hakim Bishara
$38.5 Million Has Been Allocated to LA Arts Recovery
$38.5 Million Has Been Allocated to LA Arts Recovery
The new Getty fund is a massive effort to preserve jobs and retain the cultural capital of LA’s creative workforce.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Angel Otero’s Exquisite Domestic Interiors
Angel Otero’s Exquisite Domestic Interiors
In The Fortune of Having Been There, Otero’s paintings seduce us with the whole as well as their individual parts.
Valentina Di Liscia
Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair Is Back, Sans the Long Lines
Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair Is Back, Sans the Long Lines
With its first-ever virtual edition, the fan favorite offers a robust slate of exhibitors, performances, and a conference on contemporary artists’ books.
Dessane Lopez Cassell
Restored Short Films by and About Djibril Diop Mambéty, a Giant of African Cinema
Restored Short Films by and About Djibril Diop Mambéty, a Giant of African Cinema
Metrograph is streaming two shorts by the Senegalese director, as well as Laurence Gavron’s documentary about his process.
Dan Schindel
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