Massachusetts art museum workers schedule one-day strike

Exterior of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, aka MASS MoCA, photographed in April 2012. Unionized workers at the North Adams, Mass., museum have announced a one-day strike to take place on Friday, August 19. Image courtesy of WikiMedia Commons, photo credit Beyond My Ken. Shared under a series of Creative Commons licenses, most recently the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Exterior of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, aka MASS MoCA, photographed in April 2012. Unionized workers at the North Adams, Mass., museum have announced a one-day strike to take place on Friday, August 19. Image courtesy of WikiMedia Commons, photo credit Beyond My Ken. Shared under a series of Creative Commons licenses, most recently the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Exterior of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, aka MASS MoCA, photographed in April 2012. Unionized workers at the North Adams, Mass., museum have announced a one-day strike to take place on Friday, August 19. Image courtesy of WikiMedia Commons, photo credit Beyond My Ken. Shared under a series of Creative Commons licenses, most recently the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) – Unionized workers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, frustrated with the progress of contract negotiations, have authorized a one-day strike for later this week.

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Joan Mitchell retrospective on view till January in San Francisco

Joan Mitchell, ‘No Rain,’ 1976; collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of the Estate of Joan Mitchell; © Estate of Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell, ‘No Rain,’ 1976; collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of the Estate of Joan Mitchell; © Estate of Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell, ‘No Rain,’ 1976; collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York, gift of the Estate of Joan Mitchell; © Estate of Joan Mitchell

SAN FRANCISCO — Joan Mitchell has long been hailed as a formidable creative force — a painter who attained critical acclaim and success in the male-dominated art circles of 1950s New York. She then spent nearly four decades in France creating distinctive, vibrant abstract paintings that draw on landscape, memory, poetry and music. With its world premiere at SFMOMA from September 4 through January 17, 2022, the eponymous exhibit Joan Mitchell is a comprehensive retrospective featuring approximately 80 distinguished works. In addition to rarely seen early paintings that established the artist’s career, the exhibition includes colorful large-scale multi-panel masterpieces from her later years.

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Paula Rego exhibition at Tate Britain opens July 7

Paula Rego, 'The Cadet and His Sister,' 1988, private collection. Image copyright Paula Rego, courtesy Tate Britain
Paula Rego, ‘The Cadet and His Sister,’ 1988, private collection. Image copyright Paula Rego, courtesy Tate Britain

LONDON — Tate Britain will open the largest and most comprehensive retrospective of the work of Paula Rego on July 7, running through October 24. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, Rego (1935-) has redefined figurative art and revolutionized the way in which women are represented. Continue reading

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza announces Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition

Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Serie I. Nº 3,’ 1918. Image copyright Milwaukee Art Museum, VEGAP, Madrid, 2021

MADRID — The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza has announced the first retrospective in Spain on Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). Through a curated selection of 90 works, visitors to the museum will experience the pictorial universe of a creative figure considered one of the leading representatives of 20th-century American art. The exhibition opens April 20 and runs through August 8. Continue reading