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)

from the wikipedia page for James Stephens (1880-1950), also: it me

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

Abbey Theatre, ‘Programme’, Dublin, 1910 Source

When I decided to wage holy war It looked very much like staring at my bedroom floor

Florence + the Machine, “Girls Against God,” 2022.

And it's good to be alive, crying into cereal at midnight.

Florence + the Machine, “Girls Against God,” 2022