GULF Protest at the Guggenheim Favorite

Practitioner:

Date:

Feb 22 2014

Location:

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY

Last night, over 40 protesters staged an intervention inside the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan during Saturday night’s pay-what-you-wish admission hours. Unfurling mylar banners, dropping leaflets, chanting words, handing out information to museum visitors, and drawing attention with the use of a baritone bugle, the group worked to highlight the labor conditions on Saadiyat Island in the United Arab Emirates, where Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a franchise of New York’s Guggenheim, is being built.

External sources:

http://hyperallergic.com/110856/protest-action-erupts-inside-guggenheim-museum/

Posted by mrim on Feb 25 2014

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