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Whitney Union Sets Strike Date Days Before Major Roy Lichtenstein Show

Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of Art will begin striking on Monday, October 5, if they cannot reach a contract agreement with the museum, Local 2110 UAW announced today. Workers at the Whitney Museum approved strike action earlier this month in a milestone vote held in conjunction with unions at the Brooklyn Museum and American Folk Art Museum. The Whitney union, however, is the first to put a deadline on the calendar—October 5, only three days before member and press previews open for the museum’s major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective (the show opens to the public October 11). The union’s first contract, ratified in 2023 after 16 months of bargaining, expired in June. The three-and-a-half-year contract covered approximately 200 workers and raised the wage floor significantly across the museum: staff members who made the minimum hourly rate of $17 in 2023 were subsequently paid $22, with a final salary bump to $24 per hour by 2025. For their...
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Matchday Scoring Highlights: Wellington U16s (20) v Hawke’s Bay U16s (17)

The two teams met in round one of the 2026 Hurricanes Youth Council U16 competition at Lyndhurst Park, Tawa, on Saturday. A very even game that could have gone either way and duly went down to the last play with Manawatu just failing to come up with the try at the death after a torrid...
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Sideline Conversions 28 September (rugby news and information to start the week)

Commitment – Halfback Milly Mackey looks to get the offload away to Baylee Meroiti in driving rain in the second half of their win over Tasman on Sunday. Photo: Tane Nathan/Kinetic Images. We are just about at the end of the line for representative 15s rugby for 2026, particularly in Wellington. The Wellington Pride have...
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“From Monet and Manet to Money”: A Berlin Museum Spotlights the Dealer Who Made Impressionism an International Sensation

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Three women greet viewers to “Cassirer: Breakthrough of Impressionism” at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie: Edgar Degas’s Miss La La (1879), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Lise with a Parasol (1867), and Max Slevogt’s 1901 portrait of Cassirer’s own daughter, Suzanne Aimée Cassirer. Two French, one German, all three paintings are connected to Paul Cassirer, the Berlin dealer who is credited with bringing Impressionism to Germany, including many works now in the Nationalgalerie collections; and with supporting German artists who furthered the developments of the avant-garde. Too often, we try to separate the art market from the museum, as if esteemed collections of now-canonical art could be held apart from the money with which they were bought and the circumstances in which they were sold. This exhibition and the accompanying catalog openly trace the mechanisms by which art crossed borders and exchanged hands. Impressionism ushered in a turn from art academies and state coll...
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WATCH: Tagata Pasifika 2026 Episode 22

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Tagata Pasifika | Television Series Despite the best efforts of organisers, Tuvalu’s Fakaapo Arts Festival was delayed due to bad weather. But this didn’t prevent Tagata Pasifika reporter Neueli Mauafu from spending time with the locals and those who travelled for this special celebration of Tuvaluan arts and culture.
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The Best Booths at Independent 20th Century

It’s a big year for the Independent, the art world’s favorite contemporary art fair, and its more art-historically minded sister, Independent 20th Century. On the heels of Independent’s move earlier this year from Spring Studios in Tribeca to the much larger Pier 36 on the Lower East Side, its 20th Century edition, which opens to the public today, has also relocated, shifting from its Lower Manhattan location to Marcel Breuer’s 1960s brutalist building—formerly home to the Whitney Museum and now the headquarters of the Sotheby’s auction house—on Madison Avenue and East 75th Street. The move has allowed the fair to expand from 31 participating exhibitors in 2025 to this year’s 57 and to more approximate a museum experience, with discrete “galleries” rather than the usual corridors lined with booths. Despite nearly doubling in size, it remains viewer friendly, in contrast to the now tired, as well as bloated (with an exhausting 230-plus exhibitors), Armory Show...
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Newly Speculated Goya Painting to Feature in 2028 Museo del Prado Show

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A painting that well-placed observers surmise was painted by Francisco de Goya will be on view in a forthcoming exhibition timed to commence 200 years after the celebrated Spanish artist’s death. After posing a question related to whether or not the work is truly by Goya, The Art Newspaper reported , “A full technical investigation of the work has yet to be completed but everyone involved, including Spain’s culture ministry and Madrid’s Museo del Prado, is operating under the assumption that the answer is ‘yes.’” The painting, titled El milagro de la aparición del eucaristo al San Pascual Bailón (The miracle of the appearance of the Eucharist to Saint Paschal Baylón), was bought at auction in Madrid by the Barcelona-based gallerist Artur Ramon in 2018, when it was attributed to Goya’s brother-in-law Francisco Bayeu. But during the global pandemic in 2020, Ramon hung the painting in his home and, after ample time aroudn it, started to suspect it might be...
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