Artist Coalition Announces 10-week “Strike” Against MoMA

Good morning. 🌧 Today, step inside a recreation of the charming Goodnight Moon, Lorraine O'Grady fina

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Good morning. 🌧 Today, step inside a recreation of the charming Goodnight Moon, Lorraine O'Grady finally gets her extraordinary retrospective, and a coalition of activists and artists are staging a 10-week series of actions and protests targeting MoMA.– Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

Artist Coalition Announces 10-week “Strike” Against MoMA The campaign is a collaboration by members of 12 activist-artist organizations, including Decolonize This Place, Forensic Architecture, and MoMA Divest. Hakim Bishara

What Else Is HappeningTenants of art collector, real estate investor, and ICA Boston board member Gerald Fineberg staged a pop-up exhibit and rally at the museum to protest squalid conditions and evictions in properties owned and managed by his firm. MFA students in Columbia’s Visual and Sound Art and Film programs filed a lawsuit against the university to recover damages caused by the pandemic, including tuition for the spring 2020 semester.

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Lorraine O’Grady’s First Retrospective Is Both Invigorating and Overdue O’Grady’s rebellious spirit has roused the mainstream art world for close to 50 years, and her latest exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum is no exception. Alexandra M. Thomas

New Helen Frankenthaler Biography Favors Nostalgia Over Artist’s Interiority In Fierce Poise, the paternalistic attitude toward Frankenthaler undermines both the author’s gifts and the artist’s. Lily Meyer

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