If cultural institutions muzzled workers who expressed solidarity with Palestinians before, now they’re just straight out firing them
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September 11, 2024

If cultural institutions muzzled workers who expressed solidarity with Palestinians before, now they’re pushing them out of their jobs or straight out firing them. Yesterday it was the Noguchi Museum and today it’s the 92nd Street Y, both in New York. Staff Reporter Isa Farfan has the story.

In other news, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Director Glenn Lowry is stepping down after 30 years in the job, and body artist Rebecca Horn passes away at age 80.

Also today: Qualeasha Wood’s remarkable quilts for the online zeitgeist, a new documentary about the cut-throat culture of contemporary ballet, a look at the Getty’s expansive PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative, and the moving love story between a New York artist and a dentist in Gaza, whose life hangs by a thread in the besieged and bombarded city.

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

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My Love Story With a Dentist in Gaza

We began our friendship with shop talk. Suddenly, being an artist and being a dentist didn’t feel so different. | Rebecca Goyette

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LATEST NEWS

  • Rebecca Horn, the German artist known for works exploring bodily boundaries and spatial relationships, has died at the age of 80.

  • MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry has announced that he will step down from his post in 2025, bookending three decades at the institution’s helm.

  • Five workers resigned and one lost her job after 92NY announced a policy against expressions of “politics or social issues,” which they say disproportionately targets pro-Palestinian views

ART & FILM

10 Art Shows to See in New York Right Now

Artists including Leon Golub, Charles Yuen, Naudline Pierre, and Manny Vega are kicking off the fall art season with must-see shows. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, and Valentina Di Liscia

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Art and Science Intermix in Dozens of Exhibitions Across LA This Fall

The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical. | Matt Stromberg

Qualeasha Wood Weaves the Online Into the IRL

code_anima brings together jacquard-woven, tufted, and resin diamond-studded works in the artist’s most intimate performance of self to date. | Izzy DeSantis

The Dizzying Contradictions in Contemporary Classical Ballet

The dancers we grow to know (and love) in Swan Song are sweating, swearing, soaring women, at odds with conceptions of purity and frailness. | Eileen G’Sell

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