More Context W/r/t Museum Guards, Living Wages, And Essential But Often Overlooked Arts Workers

more context w/r/t museum guards, living wages, and essential but often overlooked arts workers

“An Artist an Met Museum Guard Whose New Work Is About Pay: Her Own,” (Emilie Lemakis) | 2022,  New York Times (paywall; I’ll try to get screengrabs up soon)

“Invisible Man: At the Whitney, Fred Wilson Comments on the Status of Museum Guards,” (Fred Wilson) | 2012, Art Observer (open access article; the Whitney has information about the works here)

“Visiting Hours,” a poem by Essex Hemphill (1957-1995), who worked as a museum guard in Washington, D.C. | 1992, Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry, Plume: 1992, screen capture from archive.org)

To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing

Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbours' eyes? Bred to a harder thing Than Triumph, turn away And like a laughing string Whereon mad fingers play Amid a place of stone, Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. 

Wm. Butler Yeats, 1916, Responsibilities and other Poems‍. (source)

2 palestinian women were killed today. Ghada Ibrahim Sabatien a 47 year old woman from bethlehem (her death was recorded and her body circulating all over twitter with israelis cheering in the comments) and another woman not yet identified in Hebron. They also killed a 19 year old palestinian boy from bethlehem, Mohammed Ghnaim. 3 palestinians murdered. And every news outlets as usual is reporting like this is normal that it's a result of "high tensions" and israeli soldiers keeping an eye after the attacks but it's not normal. Its not normal that palestinians are treated like rats imprisoned in their own homeland thats broken up by checkpoints that make little prisons within our larger prison and killed at whim

tote bag shoulder damage generation

theyre talking about us again

Stromae - Fils de joie

“In a fictional country, the state holds a funeral for a missing sex worker.”