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Exhibition at Columbia University seeks to bring renewed attention to war in Gaza

Two-day exhibition organised by student activists and outside collaborators comes sixth months after the height of the campus encampment movement

Florida art organisations face long recovery after hurricanes Helene and Milton

Museums, residencies and other art non-profits on the state’s Gulf Coast are grappling with a range of impacts from the hurricanes

Students at multiple US art schools face tougher policies on protests this autumn

After a spring semester defined by widespread pro-Palestine demonstrations, some top art universities have imposed new restrictions

Three months after shutting down, Philadelphia’s University of the Arts files for bankruptcy

The university’s leaders still face a host of legal disputes, but the filing may allow them to liquidate real estate holdings that have been valued at $87m

Noguchi Museum fires three employees for failing to comply with ban on overtly political dress

The firings come after museum leaders disciplined several employees who refused to remove their keffiyehs, traditional scarves often worn as a sign of support for Palestinians

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Unionised workers at New York's Storm King sculpture park ratify their first contracts

The agreement with members of two bargaining units comes as the popular outdoor art destination puts the finishing touches on a $45m campus revamp

How a new US art fair nearly ‘sold out’—without any money changing hands

By signing an inventive contract, visitors to the new fair can take home pieces of art at no charge, while artists are allowed to keep rights on the work

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‘All activities are dormant’: how the Kenya anti-government protests are affecting artists

As demonstrations continue, artists reflect on the violence and how police suspicion is limiting their ability to work

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Artist who threatened to blow up art to save Julian Assange reflects on ‘extreme stress’ of the experience

Andrei Molodkin had threatened to destroy unidentified works by artists including Pablo Picasso if the WikiLeaks founder died in jail, but now they are to be set free

Staff at the American Folk Art Museum vote unanimously to form a union

The institution’s new union, formed under UAW Local 2110, will represent workers across departments including curatorial, information technology, retail and more

Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters rally at Brooklyn Museum

Demonstrators took over the lobby and exterior of the museum on Friday afternoon, calling for transparency and divestment regarding financial ties to Israel

First-of-its-kind pro-Palestine faculty encampment continues at New York’s New School university

Following violent crackdowns on student protests, instructors at the left-leaning university and leading art school have set up tents in the lobby of an academic building

Pro-Palestine student group at RISD takes over school building

Negotiations between leaders and students at the top-tier art and design school have broken down

Art students arrested as US universities crack down on Palestinian solidarity encampments

Students at Parsons School of Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the School of Visual Arts, the Savannah College of Art and Design and others have joined the nationwide protest movement

Unionised Guggenheim workers stage protests amid contract negotiations

Recent actions in front of and inside the Manhattan museum come as the workers are seeking their second contract since forming a union in 2019

Workers at California non-profit that supports artists with disabilities are unionising

The organising effort at the Creative Growth Art Center coincides with the organisation’s 50th anniversary and follows the launch of a high-profile partnership with SFMoMA

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Mass Moca employees end three-week strike following dispute over wages

Unionised workers and museum officials have ratified a new deal that raises staff minimum wages to $18 per hour

Philadelphia Museum of Art workers stage protest during all-staff meeting

Administrators and unionised workers at the institution remain at an impasse over the issue of longevity pay

Workers at Mass Moca go on strike 'indefinitely' amid stalled wage negotiations

It is the second time in two years that unionised employees of the museum have gone on strike

Staff at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art launch campaign to form union

If their campaign is successful, around 100 workers at the museum would be represented by the union

Faculty at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts reach tentative contract agreement, averting strike

The potential deal between the union and administration came just hours before a vote to authorise a strike

Dispute between Philadelphia Museum of Art and employee union drags on, after strike in 2022

The union claims the institution has not implemented an agreement concerning length-of-service pay increases

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Denver Art Museum workers launch campaign to form union

Staff at the museum are the latest to join the unionisation movement that has swept across the sector in the US

Unionised University of the Arts faculty prepare to strike after more than two years of contract negotiations

Professors at the Philadelphia art school have been ramping up their attempts to move negotiations forward

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On the eve of a planned strike, Brooklyn Museum workers ratify first union contract

After over two years of negotiations, members of the museum’s UAW Local 2110 union voted to ratify their first contract

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Workers at New York’s Jewish Museum ratify their first union contract

The new contract, approved by an overwhelming majority of members, will see staff wages increase 17.5% over the next three years

Guggenheim Museum staff ratifies its first union contract

With 97% of the vote, museum employees signed their first union contract after two years at the bargaining table

Largest museum union in the US ratifies its first contract

More than 500 workers at the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh voted to ratify their first contract after 18 months of negotiations

New documentary gives inside view of art museum’s attempts to become more diverse

“White Balls on Walls” shows how the staff of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum have tried to implement change amid a shifting social landscape

Strike at New York's Hispanic Society ends after nearly two months

Workers at the museum ratified their first contract after many months of negotiations with leadership