Joint Statement Promoting Safe Spaces Within the South Asian Arts Community
As active stakeholders in the South Asian arts community, we are concerned by the growing number of allegations of sexual harassment and reports of hostile work environments. These are serious concerns...
View ArticleOpen letter of the art milieu of Poland concerning launching a competition...
/EN Dear Mr. Minister, As an art milieu taking an active part in the workings of the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Krakow, we feel compelled to communicate our concern regarding plans...
View ArticleA Letter from Artists in the Whitney Biennial (New York, US)
Dear Ru and Jane, We respectfully ask you to withdraw our work from the Whitney Biennial for the remainder of the show. This request is intended as condemnation of Warren Kanders’ continued presence as...
View ArticleStatement Condemning the Alarming Silencing of Sexual Harassment Survivors...
Indian artist Subodh Gupta filed a civil defamation suit on 18 September 2019 against the Instagram handle @herdsceneand for allegedly “publishing false, malicious and defamatory content”. Mr. Gupta is...
View ArticleMethod Fund calls for financial and public support of court hearings...
We invite everyone to support the campaign by: donating any amount comfortable for you; providing media support. The gathered sum will cover expenses on legal support provided by Trust Me Law Firm...
View ArticleRevoke the director appointment at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary...
As citizens and members of the international artistic community as well as the audience of contemporary art we firmly object to the decision made by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the...
View ArticleOpen Letter Regarding Censorship at the 1st Feminnale of Contemporary Art...
Participants of the Feminnale from 22 countries have drawn up an open letter to President of Kyrgyzstan expressing their outrage regarding assaults by right-wing radical groups against the modern art...
View ArticlePinchuk Art Center mediators lose jobs after forming union (Kyiv, Ukraine)
Contemporary art can be hard to understand. That’s why progressive galleries and museums hire mediators, who contextualize exhibits and broaden visitors’ knowledge about them. At Kyiv’s Pinchuk Art...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Museums and Galleries in support of education and other...
We the undersigned write with grave concern about a growing trend of layoffs targeting education staff at major global museums in the name of COVID-19. Museums including MoMA, LA MOCA, Mass MoCA,...
View ArticlePetition: “Open Letter Calling on Museums to Retain Staff During COVID-19...
To art museum directors, trustees, board members, and upper management: We ask that you do everything in your power to retain all staff members during the COVID-19 crisis. Barely three weeks after the...
View ArticleArtists at Risk (AR) COVID-19 Emergency Fund
20 April 2020 Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina and author Neil Gaiman back Covid-19 campaign for artists at risk Leading international artists are supporting the launch of an emergency fund to help...
View ArticleArtists protesting against the early closure of the show “Women Make History,...
May 8, 2020 To: Yotam Yakir Director of Haifa Museums Re: Letter from the Museum on May 7th, 2020 concerning the exhibit “Women Make History” Dear M. Yakir, We would like to turn to you personally, as...
View ArticleArtists protesting against the early closure of the show “Women Make History,...
Public Statement May 17.2020 Dear friends and colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that thanks to our letters, our protests on social media and in the press (radio as well), the Haifa Museum of Art...
View ArticlePetrit Halilaj: GIVE US BACK OUR STARS
Petrit Halilaj’s withdrawal from The Dreamers, 58th Salon – Belgrade Biennial In 2019 I was invited by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin to take part in the 58th October Salon I Belgrade Biennial,...
View ArticleCultural Centre of Belgrade Issues Statement Regarding Petrit Halilaj’s...
//EN The Cultural Centre of Belgrade (KCB), as the organizer of the 58th October Salon – Belgrade Biennale expresses, once again, its regrets about the decision of artist Petrit Halilaj to withdraw his...
View ArticleOpen Letter from Cultural Workers in Belarus
//EN We, cultural workers of Belarus, are deeply shocked and outraged by the events of the last days in our country related to the elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, and by the...
View ArticleInternational Scholars Call for End to Police Violence and Free Elections in...
English/ беларуская/ русская * * * To: Constitutional Court of the Republic of BelarusSupreme Court of the Republic of BelarusState Secretariat of the Security Council of the Republic of BelarusCouncil...
View ArticleManifesta and the Minorities of Marseille: Answer the Accusations of...
[i] Lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and plus. [ii] Consider that some are less worthy of being respected by their work, with regard to their body, in their identity. [iii] In particular, the...
View ArticleNothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced
As artists, academics, writers and cultural workers who live in Germany and/or work with German cultural institutions, we welcome the joint initiative “GG 5.3. Weltoffenheit,” announced by a broad...
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