leAD  NEW YORK. The Guggenheim’s Abu Dhabi outpost faces a boycott from a group of 130 international artists, curators and writers who say they will refuse to cooperate on the project until working conditions for labourers building the $800m museum are improved. The petition, published online and addressed to Richard Armstrong, the director of the Guggenheim Foundation and its New York museum, says: “Human rights violations are currently occurring on Saadiyat Island, the location of the new museum.” It cites a 2009 report by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch, which says it “has documented a cycle of abuse that leaves migrant workers deeply indebted, poorly paid, and unable to defend their rights or even quit their jobs”... READ MORE
articles Host of museum projects underway but will they be ready in time? A conservation grant allows a Beirut foundation to digitise two rare archives Income tax and VAT increases mean wealthy art buyers could feel the pinch Lisa King is stepping down after 15 years at the company Santiago de Compostela’s City of Culture branded an “expensive mistake” While its real antiquities from Egypt travel to China Demonstrations stem from President Sarkozy’s proposal to install a new museum of French history on same site A series of exhibitions, conferences and other events are being planned The Nigerian-born, London-based artist talks about his menacing installation Interest on debts running at $9,000 a day all articles
video Transparency is a topic of much debate and controversy within the art world. It is seen as healthy but is this always the case? Would more transparency ruin the art market as some believe? Anthony Caro talks to Anna Somers Cocks about the difficulties artists face through the key stages in their career. Filmed in his studio in late 2008, Caro discusses the difficulties in maintaining a career after the initial 'splash' onto the art scene. . more videos
exhibitions  Folk art will be given pride of place in two British museums in March. At Compton Verney, artists including Mike Nelson have reinstalled objects such a ship’s figure head in the form of a Turk among the fine art and antiquities. So paintings and objects that normally live in the attic will be found in the house museum’s grandest galleries during “What the Folk Say”.
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