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Jeff Koons Lays Off Workers Amidst Reports of Unionization

by Paddy Johnson and Rhett Jones on July 18, 2016

According to sources speaking anonymously with Art F City, Jeff Koons’ mammoth studio operation in Chelsea has laid off 14 of its night crew workers who were attempting to unionize and one day crew member who was friendly with those night crew organizers.

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Cleaners and Porters to Protest at Sotheby’s London

by Leighann Morris on June 25, 2015

In February of this year, cleaners and porters at London’s Sotheby’s auction house successfully campaigned to receive the London Living Wage of £9.15. The triumph was part of an extensive campaign by union United Voice of the World (UVW) to pressure both Sotheby’s and the contracted cleaning service Cleaning & Maintenance London (CCML) into negotiating several other terms for these employees, often migrant workers, who had complained of ill treatment—and unfair pay. But the victory of a living wage, among other gains, is now proving short-lived.

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Friday Links: Huh, Rodin?

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on April 17, 2015

Jeremy Bailey’s sickle-shaped iPhone case test print. <3. [Facebook]
Happy Friday! Here is a creepy, psychedelic sing-along on the topic of Jell-O. Brought to you by the musician Ariel Pink. [HUH.]
Someone is selling a Rodin on Craigslist. The sales writeup is lifted from from the Met. Buyer beware. [Craigslist via @shaneferro]
Relatedly, if you’re on Twitter follow Shane Ferro. She’s one of the best tweeters around. [Twitter]
Starbucks is being forced onto the side streets of New York because the rent is too high. [Commercial Observer]
Art critics Holland Cotter and Roberta Smith have picked out ten galleries to visit in various boroughs throughout the city. Finding art that’s likable is standard fare for art critics; what’s distinctive about their selections is how they focus on the changing landscape of each neighborhood, nearly as much as the art. Their write-ups capture a specific moment in gallery-time—before they move on, in the next wave of new developments. Cotter on the Upper East Side; Smith on Chelsea. [The New York Times]
After 12 years in office, Susan Henshaw Jones, will retire as director of the Museum of the City of New York. [Museum of the City of New York]
Spanx, and other shapewear, has been linked to a range of medical problems, like gastroesophogeal reflux disease. [Los Angeles Times]
Publicity stunt or “hell yes” moment? Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan writes an article about how his editorial staff met with union organizers. Gawker is thinking about forming a union; they’ve had one meeting about it. Nolan does write that “the organizing effort is still in the early stages” and “[i]t would be easier to have this conversation internally. But Gawker Media is, for better or worse, a company with a rich history of gossip.” [Gawker]