Jul 17, 2019 | News & Trending
One of the most prominent names in art philanthropy, the Sackler family, will no longer be featured on the walls of the Louvre museum in Paris. On July 1, more than a dozen protesters gathered outside the Louvre and unfurled a large banner that read, “Take down the...
Jun 28, 2019 | News & Trending
Guggenheim Museum workers are now officially part of the Local 30 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, as of a 57-20 vote that took place Thursday evening. The decision came after employees complained about being paid substantially lower wages than those...
Jun 7, 2019 | News & Trending
Low wages and poor benefits have inspired security guards at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum to form their own union. Underpaid employees say they’ve gone to extreme lengths to keep up with the city’s high cost of living—including sleeping on friends’ couches and putting...
Apr 12, 2019 | News & Trending
On Friday, approximately two dozen parents gathered outside Harvard’s Arthur M. Sackler Museum to protest the name of the family whose company developed the addictive painkiller OxyContin. “Harvard, we want the Sackler name to come down,” said 56-year-old...
Mar 29, 2019 | Museums, News & Trending
After more than 10 years in the making, Hong Kong’s Tsz Shan Monastery is finally ready to open its doors to the public. It’s a historic moment for local residents, given that it is the region’s first and only Buddhist art museum. “The museum aspires to promulgate...
