Labour

At Project Native Informant, London, the artist asks how one person’s labour is exploited to facilitate another person’s leisure 

Shot in Cambridge, the artist’s latest film interlaces histories of laziness, from Johnny Mercer to Audre Lorde

The Comedy Central series injects a dose of mania and sloth into the ‘multicultural sitcom’

It’s the most vulnerable that are set to suffer the most and, in the topsy-turvy value system of contemporary art, that means artists and other freelancers

The 14-day action is a response to the widespread casualization of labour, overwork and pay decreases

It’s tempting to read Haacke’s longstanding work of institutional critique as prescient. In fact, he’s been an astute observer for long enough to know that current scrutiny of museum ethics is well overdue

From organizing against arts cuts to an ‘Acid Corbynist’ listening session, can Momentum’s festival of ideas foster collective hope against right-wing media and politicians?

‘I was sad to resign; sad to believe that it was the most useful thing I could do,’ wrote Ahdaf Soueif

From Brooklyn Academy of Music to the New Museum, art workers are increasingly agitating for better compensation and a seat at the table

Over 1000 art workers have anonymously posted their salaries

Artists and lecturers won a landmark workers’ rights case in February, and hope it will have far-reaching consequences

Recent studies highlight deep precarity in the art world, alongside a renewed push for fairer payment and resistance to ‘self-exploitation’

Artists earn only £6,020 on average from their practice, with many working multiple additional jobs to supplement their income

The inquiry into the arts sector’s ‘class ceiling’ follows renewed concern around diversity and exclusion

With 12 hours of talks (and only one 20-minute break) on a Saturday, the Serpentine Marathon illustrates how the art world plays by its own rules

‘The demand to be paid is a political one,’ says campaigning organization W.A.G.E.

The work of John Hanson, Rob Nilsson and Fred Lonidier establishes a dialectic between a leftist melancholy and a more forward-looking politics

A new survey of higher education degrees in the US says that fine art is the least valuable subject to specialize in

In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation

27 educators are taking the London gallery to an employment tribunal, demanding that they be recognized as employees