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Unionised Guggenheim workers stage protests amid contract negotiations

Recent actions in front of and inside the Manhattan museum come as the workers are seeking their second contract since forming a union in 2019

Net art pioneer Shu Lea Cheang wins $100,000 LG Guggenheim award

The Taiwan-born interdisciplinary artist’s work spans coding languages, hacking tactics, gaming engines and more

Climate activists stage protests at two famous New York museums

Activists with Extinction Rebellion staged protests inside the Guggenheim Museum and the American Museum of Natural History

Guggenheim picks a leader from NYU Abu Dhabi as its next director—the first woman to head the institution

Mariët Westermann, the first woman to take a leadership role of this magnitude with the museum, will oversee the expansion of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi

Guggenheim Museum laces up for year-long collaboration with Converse

A focal point of the partnership between the museum and sports clothing brand will be support for the Guggenheim’s internship programme

Guggenheim Museum staff ratifies its first union contract

With 97% of the vote, museum employees signed their first union contract after two years at the bargaining table

New York’s Guggenheim Museum raises price of admission to $30, keeping pace with Whitney and Met

A standard adult ticket is now on par with other recent entry fee increases across town

Across the Koons-verse: artist's balloon animals make cameo in new Spider-Man film

In addition to a Koonsian clash inside the Guggenheim, "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" features a fleeting Bansky reference—just like the film's predecessor

Pioneering AI artist wins inaugural $100,000 award from New York's Guggenheim and LG

Stephanie Dinkins wins prize that celebrates excellence in works at the intersection of art and technology

Twelve must-see exhibitions in New York during Frieze

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

Sarah Sze: the artist creating complex immersive worlds from everyday objects

The US artist discusses her solo show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and her upcoming Artangel project in an abandoned London train station waiting room

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‘You can’t pay rent with prestige’: as contract negotiations drag on, unionised Guggenheim workers rally at exhibition openings

As museum members and supporters waited to enter opening celebrations for Gego and Sarah Sze shows, they were greeted by members of UAW Local 2110

New York’s Guggenheim Museum hires curator of art and technology

Noam Segal is the institution's first LG Electronics Associate Curator, a new position in partnership with the Korean electronics giant

Protest for Mahsa Amini—who was killed by Iran's morality police—staged at New York's Guggenheim Museum

An anonymous collective unfurled banners proclaiming “Women, Life, Freedom” from the top of the institution's rotunda

Longtime Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong stepping down

Armstrong, who led the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for nearly 15 years filled with triumphs and turbulence, will leave in spring 2023

‘Unexhibitable’ Eva Hesse sculpture will go on view at New York's Guggenheim following restoration

A new exhibition at the museum centres on ‘Expanded Expansion’, a large-scale latex work that had deteriorated in storage for decades

Vladimir Potanin, one of Russia's richest men, resigns from board of the Guggenheim Museum

New York institution condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its statement on the resignation

Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend

From Jennie C. Jones at the Guggenheim to Vincent Smith at Alexandre Gallery

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State of the unions: why US museum workers are mobilising against their employers

With the arts sector increasingly vulnerable in the wake of the pandemic, a new breed of digitally optimised worker is emerging

Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend

From the last chance to see Etal Adnan at the Guggenheim to a dynamic group exhibition at Nicola Vassell

Guggenheim director awarded huge pay increase during sweeping pandemic lay offs

Despite cutting 11% of staff, the museum’s director Richard Armstrong appears to have effectively received a 40% pay increase in 2020, listed as "deferred compensation"

‘Passion and compassion in her poetry and painting’—tributes paid to Lebanese artist Etel Adnan who has died, aged 96

The writer and abstract artist currently has an exhibition on at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York

Curators, conservators and educators at the Guggenheim seek to unionise

A United Auto Workers local that represents employees at several other museums files a petition on their behalf for a union vote

After soul-searching, Guggenheim names a Black ‘culture and inclusion’ officer and a human resources chief

Appointments follow accusations of “systemic racism” in hiring and programming at the museum

Exclusive survey: what progress have US museums made on diversity, after a year of racial reckoning?

We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences

Top shows to see in New York during Frieze week

From Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke at Acquavella Galleries to Deana Lawson at the Guggenheim

While US museum attendance nosedived in 2020 amid pandemic, disparities in reopenings yielded a few surprises

Huntington Library in California and Crystal Bridges in Arkansas ascended to the top of our visitor figures list