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Yvonne Rainer Accuses Abramović & MOCA of Exploiting Performers
A still from Pier Paolo Pasolini's disturbing masterpiece "Salo" (via filmcritic.com)Since Marina Abramović was picked to provide the entertainment for LA MOCA’s upcoming gala we’ve all been wondering...
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Workers Occupy Cinecittà to Save the Legendary Roman Studio
Some of the occupying Cinecittà workers hold up signs saying, “Let’s save her [Cinecittà].” (photo by Maurizio Di Loreto, via Facebook/Fabiomassimo Lozzi)Rome’s Cinecittà Studios have provided the sets...
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ArtLeaks Plans Gazette to Talk About Art-World Corruption
Zampa di Leone, “ArtLeaks” (2011) (image via Facebook)The art world is a notoriously secretive place. Even though it’s pretty much universally agreed upon that the system and its attendant economics...
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Cinecittà Workers Suspend Strike
A scene from the Cinecittà occupation (image via savecinecitta.org)The 200 workers who went on strike beginning in July to protest the potential fate of Italy’s beloved film studios, Cinecittà, have...
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Using Art to Describe Labor
Installation view, Esther Shalev-Gerz, “Describing Labor” at the Wolfsonian-FIU (click to enlarge) (all images by the author for Hyperallergic)MIAMI — In the past year, there’s been a lot discussion...
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Contract Workers at Smithsonian Protest Low Wages
Workers protesting at the Smithsonian yesterday (via Good Jobs Nation on Twitter)Some 50 food service workers at the Smithsonian museums went on strike yesterday, in protest of their less-than-livable...
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UK Arts Workers Underpaid, but Satisfied
(screenshot via artshub.co.uk)An organization called ArtsHub has conducted an arts jobs survey in the UK, and the results make clear just how difficult and unsustainable it is to work in the arts. The...
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After Negotiations, Frieze New York Agrees to Union Labor
Union protest at Frieze New York 2013 (photo by the author for Hyperallergic)After two years of protests regarding its use of non-union labor, Frieze New York announced today that it will be employing...
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Human Rights Watch Releases Damning Report on Labor Conditions in Abu Dhabi
Workers return to their camps in Al Sajaa on Friday, a holiday (courtesy Gulf Labor) Today Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its third report on violations of the rights of migrant workers on Saadiyat...
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