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Artists Call for Guggenheim Boycott over Migrant Worker Exploitation in Abu Dhabi

Hans Haacke made me aware of the following situation which I’m passing along to Artblog readers: More than 130 international artists, curators, writers and others have signed a boycott to end all cooperation with the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and are demanding that the Guggenheim Foundation and its Abu Dhabi partner take immediate and meaningful steps to safeguard the rights of the workers constructing the new branch museum on Saadiyat Island, where Human Rights Watch have documented a series of abuses.

Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami

This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB (Art Basel Miami Beach) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel, Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as ... More » »

Without Boundary but with a label

Without Boundary — closing soon (May 22) at MoMA — is an exhibition chock full of great work. I saw it last month when Steve and I were on our Three Penny Opera trip. Some of the art and artists in the show I knew, like Shahzia Sikander, Kutlug Ataman, Emily Jacir, Marjane Satrapi. I’d seen their works in Philadelphia and elsewhere (Sikander’s at the Fabric Workshop and elsewhere, Jacir at the Whitney Biennial 2004, Ataman’s at the Carnegie International 2004 and Art at the Armory.) Others, like Satrapi’s Persepolis, is a graphic novel I own. Libby and I have ... More » »