Employees at the Whitney Museum and the Hispanic Society Join the Growing Ranks of U.S. Culture Workers Seeking to Unionize
Staffers from both institutions are trying to join the United Auto Workers.
The Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo courtesy the museum.
The Hispanic Society petition was filed with the National Labor Relations Board on May 7, and the Whitney’s followed suit on May 17, reports the
Workers at both museums are looking to join the Technical, Office, and Professional Union, Local 2110, part of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, which has represented staff at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the New-York Historical Society since the 1970s and the Bronx Museum of the Arts since 2005.
Galleries will bring Rosemarie Fiore to campus this fall for a smoke-painting performance celebrating inclusivity
Rosemarie Fiore performing at Museum of Contemporary Art and Space 42 in Jacksonville Florida.
Image: Courtesy of Space 42, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville and Michelle Calloway An icompendium Site
HUB-Robeson Galleries receives National Endowment for the Arts grant
May 12, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Penn State s HUB-Robeson Galleries has received a $25,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support a performance celebrating inclusivity in Central Pennysylvania, titled Rosemarie Fiore: Smoke Painting Performance, by artist Rosemarie Fiore.
The award will bring Fiore to the University Park campus for an outdoor smoke-painting performance in fall 2021. The 3-hour performance will result in three large-scale murals which will be displayed in the HUB-Robeson Cultural Center for two years. A solo exhibition
From David Hammons, a Tribute to Pier 52 and Lastingness
Their artistic paths crossed like ships in the night. But at long last, two New York legends meet in “Day’s End,” an immortalizing homage by Hammons to Gordon Matta-Clark and art history.
“Day’s End,” David Hammons’s site-specific sculpture in Hudson River Park, reimagines the vanished Pier 52 as an open-air pavilion.Credit.Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times
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In 2014, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Adam D. Weinberg, invited the artist David Hammons to tour the museum’s still empty new building. Weinberg remembers them standing together at the panoramic fifth-floor window overlooking the Hudson and talking about the history of the waterfront facing the museum, about what was there and what was gone.
Speed Art Museum s Promise, Witness, Remembrance Gets an Assist From Design Studio Team
Speed Art Museum’s latest exhibit, honors the life of Breonna Taylor. Not only does the show reflect on Taylor’s murder at the hands of the Louisville police, but it explores the loss of countless Black lives to gun violence in the US.
Those three words that make up the exhibit s name come from Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor’s mother, and they divide the show into three crucial segments. “Promise” finds artists discussing the origins of our country and its founding, along with the symbolism that speaks to the realities of our ideologies. With “Witness,” they explore the moment we find ourselves in, with a country that exploded in protest last summer after police murdered Taylor and George Floyd. Finally, in “Remembrance,” they honor the Black lives lost to gun violence and the ongoing legacy of police brutality in the US.
A Black Ballet Centering Mothers Of The Movement Is Coming To Carnegie Hall
Jeremy McQueen and Angelica Chéri worked together to tell a familiar story through an unfamiliar lens in A Mother’s Rite.
Jeremy McQueen, and Angelica Chéri are bringing the story of mothers mourning sons stolen by police violence to the screen in
A Mother’s Rite. Danced by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performer Courtney Celeste Spears, the original ballet features a fictional mother expressing her pain through movement. It is set to a rendition of Stravinsky’s
The Rite of Spring performed by the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo.