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.- The New Museum is proud to present Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, an exhibition originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) for the New Museum, and presented with curatorial support from advisors Naomi Beckwith Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, and Mark Nash. On view from February 17 to June 6, 2021, Grief and Grievance is an intergenerational exhibition bringing together thirty seven artists working in a variety of mediums who have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of racist violence experienced by Black communities across America. The exhibition further considers the intertwined phenomena of Black grief and a politically orchestrated white grievance, as each structures and defines contemporary American social and political life. Included in Grief and Grievance are works encompassing video, painting, sculpture, installat
NLRB election would determine whether Colectivo Coffee workers get a union. By Graham Kilmer - Feb 16th, 2021 06:28 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Colectivo Coffee with walk-up windows in Riverwest. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
Employees of Colectivo Coffee who are trying to form a union have filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The employees are organizing with the support of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) locals 494 and 1220
Organizers can file a petition for a representation election once 30% of a company’s employees have signed and returned authorization cards, which are statements from an employee saying they authorize the union in the case IBEW to act as their representative. The workers organizing at Colectivo previously told Urban Milwaukee they wanted a solid majority of returned authorization cards before they would petition for an election.
"SUPERNOVA: Charlotte and Gene’s Radical Imagination Station," Panczenko MFA Prize exhibit, through 3/1, Chazen Museum of Art. Open by appointment, noon-5 pm Tuesdays-Wednesdays and noon-7 pm Thursdays-Fridays.
Miles McEnery Gallery will open an exhibition of new paintings by Suzanne Caporael
Suzanne Caporael, 753 (wrack on blue), 2020. Oil on linen, 54 x 42 inches, 137.2 x 106.7 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY.
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.-Miles McEnery Gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Suzanne Caporael. Book Eight, the artists eighth exhibition at the gallery, will open on 18 February at 520 West 21st Street and will remain on view through 27 March 2021. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by art historian and philosopher David Carrier.
In Book Eight, Caporael continues her profound exploration of the nature of color, surface, and aesthetics. Her calm, yet invigorating paintings, composed of multiple veiled layers of oil paint, employ an aesthetic inherent to the experience of the real world. The artists ongoing investigation of rich colors, decisive placement of shapes, and juxtaposing fo