Category Archives: Art, Social Justice and Culture

Valuing Labor in the Arts

Posted on May 30, 2014 by ellenpolus

Shannon Jackson, Director of the Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley When is it okay to work for free? Is it acceptable as long as you’re working with—or for—another artist? What is an artistic service? These are just a few of … Continue reading →

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Protesters Stage Intervention at Guggenheim’s Futurist Exhibition

Posted on May 25, 2014 by ellenpolus

Last night’s protest action at New York’s Guggenheim Museum by the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) is the group’s fourth intervention and the latest to raise awareness about the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates. The group … Continue reading →

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Protesters Urge Guggenheim to Aid Abu Dhabi Workers

Posted on May 25, 2014 by ellenpolus

Protesters critical of the Guggenheim Museum’s planned franchise in Abu Dhabi smuggled artworks into the museum on Saturday evening, placing them in an exhibit of Italian Futurism. The art created by the group, Global Ultra Luxury Faction, known as G.U.L.F., … Continue reading →

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Jonas Staal: Art. Democratism. Propaganda.

Posted on May 24, 2014 by ellenpolus

There is something deeply propagandistic in the disappearance of the notion of propaganda from artistic discourse. The word only resurfaces bluntly to dismiss certain practices as one-dimensional, as pamphletism, or as ideological and doctrinal. In our capitalist-democratic age, art is … Continue reading →

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Jona Staal: DEMOCRATISM: An introduction to five models of civil protest

Posted on May 24, 2014 by ellenpolus

This booklet comprises a series of public interventions in Tokyo and a context-specific essay, realized by writer Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and visual artist Jonas Staal during a “Creator in Residence” working period at Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama, Tokyo, … Continue reading →

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Artists Win Appeal Against National Gallery of Canada

Posted on May 15, 2014 by ellenpolus

Today, CARFAC—a non-profit corporation that is the national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists—won its appeal against the National Gallery of Canada in the Supreme Court of Canada. The unanimous decision from a panel of judges was made just a … Continue reading →

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Protestors Take Over the Guggenheim With Giant Projections

Posted on March 25, 2014 by ellenpolus

Last night, for a full forty minutes, the Guggenheim Museum was covered with projections of “1%”, illustrations of debt spirals, and dollar bills. The work of Occupy Museums, the OWS Illuminator, and G.U.L.F. (Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction), the projections were intended to draw attention … Continue reading →

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