BAM Administrative Workers Ratify Union Contract

Morning, everyone! ⛅ The Keith Haring Foundation is selling the artist’s personal collection to benef

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Morning, everyone! ⛅ The Keith Haring Foundation is selling the artist’s personal collection to benefit the LGBT Center in New York, BAM Administrative Workers successfully unionized, and we have a review of The Short Story of Women Artists.And artist Adam Pendleton and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum were kind enough to allow us to publish an excerpt of the artist’s book that accompanies his exhibition. – Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

BAM Workers Ratify Union Contract

BAM employees and union members Kaitlyn Chandler (left) and Emily Searles (right) participating in the #ABetterBAM campaign earlier last year (image courtesy of BAM Union, Kaitlyn Chandler, and Emily Searles)

Administrative workers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music have ratified their first union contract with a margin of over 90%. Union organizers said the coronavirus caused them to shift their bargaining priorities to job security.In Other NewsThe Artist Relief fund announced that it will extend its initial September deadline for applications to December 10, 2020. The fund distributes unrestricted $5,000 grants to artists in the United States and US territories.The Keith Haring Foundation is selling over 140 objects from Haring’s personal collection via Sotheby’s to benefit the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York.

Andy Warhol, “Portrait of Keith Haring and Juan DuBose” (image courtesy Sotheby’s)

The new Climate Clock in Union Square, created by artists Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd, counts down how long it will take to deplete the earth’s “carbon budget” at current rates of emissions.The New York-based gallery Canada wants to help make 700,000 Floridians who completed prison time and parole in Florida eligible to vote.

SPONSORED Celebrate Black Futures at 18th Street Arts Center’s Virtual Gala Join the Los Angeles non-profit for an evening of experimental film programming curated by Jheanelle Brown and performance art by Ulysses S. Jenkins.

Adam Pendleton’s Creative Lexicon

Elements of Adam Pendleton’s Creative Lexicon An excerpt from his limited edition artist book that accompanies his exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Hrag Vartanian

Latest Reviews

A Pocket Guide to Women Artists Overlooked by History Concise, pithy, and accessible, Susie Hodge’s The Short Story of Women Artists introduces readers to artists forgotten and obscured, many of whom are now rightly being reassessed. Lydia Pyne

SPONSORED Vera List Center Forum Launches New Focus Theme, “As for Protocols” VLC Forum 2020 explores the socio-technical aspect of protocols as articulated in the work of Vera List Center Fellows, artists, activists, and thinkers.

Scheming, Dealing, and Feeling in Miranda July’s Kajillionaire A gratifying watch, the oddball family dramedy is fundamentally about what it means to re-parent one’s self as an adult. Beandrea July

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Pioneer Works | 2021 ResidenciesCandidates working outside the “norms” of their artistic field and whose interdisciplinary practice can make use of Pioneer Works’s facilities and collaborative environment in Brooklyn, NY are invited to apply starting September 1.Deadline: September 30, 2020 | pioneerworks.org/residency View more opportunities

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