Author: Ann Williams

More than 400 workers at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), a member of Local 535 of the Public Service Employees Union of Ontario (OPSEU/SEFPO), went on strike Tuesday (March 26) over low wages due to the rising cost of living. As a result, the museum has been closed to the public since Tuesday.According to a statement from the union, after ten months of meetings, negotiations with the museum’s administrators broke down. The union says AGO’s latest offer fails to make significant improvements on key issues, including wage increases and protections against the hiring of precarious part-time workers.”As public service…

XVII By the end of the 19th century, Europe was beginning to see China as more than the legendary land of Marco Polo. As luxury goods—especially porcelain—flowed west and scientific tools and ideas flowed east, the two civilizations were a little more familiar and a little more envied. This period of what might be called respectable greed ushered in a golden age of collecting, with the French royal court at Versailles, then Europe’s finest, and its Chinese counterpart, the imperial court of the Forbidden City in Peking, buying, commissioning or simply receiving. from both worldsNow, the remnants of those two…

Inigo Philbrick, the shameless art dealer who was found guilty of an $86 million fraud and sentenced to seven years in prison, has been freed. The seven-year sentence (including two years already served) was handed down in May 2022, meaning he will serve just under four years of the seven-year sentence.Philbrick’s attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, confirmed his client’s release: “Yes, Inigo is out of jail and at home with his family.” He announced before his release Daily Mail, citing a Federal Bureau of Prisons source who said he was released in February. according to Vanity Fairhe was released in January to…

After a three-week strike, on March 26, management of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass Moca) and its union (United Auto Workers Local 2110) reached a tentative agreement. Mass Moca union members voted the same day to ratify the new contract.”We are very pleased to have reached an agreement with Mass Moca that raises minimum wages and improves working conditions,” the museum union’s bargaining committee said in a statement. “We are eager to return to the jobs we love.”The agreement establishes a new minimum wage of $18 an hour and includes annual wage increases. According to the union, 58%…

ArtElizabeth FazzareMelissa Cody. World Traveler 2014. Courtesy of the artistAnnie Albers Red Meander 1954. © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2024 Photo: Albers Foundation/Art Resource, NY. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art. Since the earliest days of textile art, believed to be around 10,000 BC, abstraction has been used to convey meaning. Although the theme of an abstract work is not so clearly communicated, these textures are embedded in the politics of their time. In ancient Andean communities, for example, colorful geometric patterns on wool were used to communicate messages across linguistic and geographic boundaries.…

ArtElizabeth FazzareMelissa Cody. World Traveler 2014. Courtesy of the artistAnnie Albers Red Meander 1954. © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2024 Photo: Albers Foundation/Art Resource, NY. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art. Since the earliest days of textile art, believed to be around 10,000 BC, abstraction has been used to convey meaning. Although the theme of an abstract work is not so clearly communicated, these textures are embedded in the politics of their time. In ancient Andean communities, for example, colorful geometric patterns on wool were used to communicate messages across linguistic and geographic boundaries.…

ArtElizabeth FazzareMelissa Cody. World Traveler 2014. Courtesy of the artistAnnie Albers Red Meander 1954. © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2024 Photo: Albers Foundation/Art Resource, NY. Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art. Since the earliest days of textile art, believed to be around 10,000 BC, abstraction has been used to convey meaning. Although the theme of an abstract work is not so clearly communicated, these textures are embedded in the politics of their time. In ancient Andean communities, for example, colorful geometric patterns on wool were used to communicate messages across linguistic and geographic boundaries.…

Richard Serra, the sculptor famous for his pioneering large-scale steel works, has died aged 85. His groundbreaking work, which transformed landscapes around the world with towering steel forms, established him as a leading figure in contemporary sculpture by the late 1970s. . His lawyer, John Silberman, confirmed it New York Times that the cause of his death was pneumonia. Serra was replaced by David Zwriner and Gagosian, who first presented his work in 1983.Born in San Francisco in 1938, Serra worked in steel mills in high school and studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara. Serra attended…

Chanel has announced the 10 winners of its biannual Chanel Next Prize, which awards each artist with an unconditional prize of 100,000 euros ($108,000). From a video game designer to an opera singer, the winners include three visual artists: Georgian artist Tolia Astakhishvili, Brazilian artist Dalton Paula and Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen. The winners were chosen by a panel of judges, including Cao Fei, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tilda Swinton.Along with the prize money, each artist will receive two years of mentorship with the luxury brand’s cultural partners, such as the Royal College of Art in London.“The Chanel Next…

A Banksy mural in north London was dismantled shortly after its unveiling, covered in plastic sheeting and surrounded by wooden planks. The work is a stencil of a life-sized woman holding a pressure washer next to green paint in the shape of a tree leaf. The mural is on the wall of a residential building, next to a cherry tree whose branches were pruned using a method called pollarding, which can appear extreme. The British street artist uploaded photos of the mural to his popular Instagram page (12.3 million followers) on March 18, confirming that the work was real. A…