Two-thirds of US museum workers are considering abandoning their jobs owing to high levels of burnout, low wages, and minimal opportunities for advancement, Julia Halperin reports in The Art Newspaper. Halperin, a coauthor of the Burns Halperin Report, which tracks Black representation at American museums, pointed to the inaugural report released this month by Museums Moving Forward (MMF), for which the advocacy group surveyed 1,933 employees from more than fifty arts institutions across the country. Millennial museum workers were especially dissatisfied, with 76 percent saying they were ready

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19.09.2023

New York’s Foxy Production to Close Permanently - Artforum International

Foxy Production, a contemporary art space in operation in New York for two decades, is ending its gallery program in October, Artnews reports, and pivoting to focus on “consultancy, curatorial, and production endeavors,” according to a gallery press release. An exhibition of photographs by Erin Calla Watson, currently on view, will be its last. No reason was given for the closure, but Foxy Production’s landlord sued the Chinatown gallery this past July, alleging $200,000 in unpaid rent dating back to February 2022; the gallery’s attorney has disputed the allegations. Foxy Production was founded

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19.09.2023

Alice Channer at Kunstmuseum Appenzell - Artforum International

The seductiveness of pollutant industries is both contested and adopted in Alice Channer’s ambitious two-part exhibition “Heavy Metals / Silk Cut”, which, in a historical first, spans both the Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle in Appenzell, Switzerland. At the Kunsthalle, “Life Without Air,” 2022–23, a series of drawings in Silk Cut cigarette ash, each overlaid with tiny, fish-egg-like plastic microspheres, points to the artist’s memory of violet silk slashed Fontana style in a 1980s Saatchi & Saatchi advertising campaign for the tobacco brand. Cancerous forms of a different sort can be found in

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20.09.2023

Wildenstein Tax Retrial Opens in Paris - Artforum International

Having been ordered in 2021 by France’s highest court to face a retrial after being twice acquitted of tax fraud, the members of the Wildenstein family, owners of one of the world’s largest collections of Old Masters, are back in court as of September 18. French American art dealer Guy Wildenstein; his nephew Alec Wildenstein Jr.; and Liouba Stoupakova, estranged widow of Guy’s brother Alec Wildenstein Sr.—collectively referred to in the French press as “les W”—could potentially pay $1 billion in taxes and fines if convicted by the Paris Court of Appeal on charges of money laundering and tax

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Burnout, Low Pay Threaten to Decimate Museum Worker Ranks - Artforum International

New York’s Foxy Production to Close Permanently - Artforum International

Alice Channer at Kunstmuseum Appenzell - Artforum International

Wildenstein Tax Retrial Opens in Paris - Artforum International

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