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Arts And Labor Sends Letter To Frieze New York Panelists, Artists, And Gallerists

Labor Group Speaks Out Against NYC Art Fair
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Deputy Enterprise Editor, Culture, HuffPost

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Arts & Labor, a working group founded in conjunction with Occupy Wall Street, has sent letters to panelists, artists, gallerists, and attendees who are participating in the second edition of Frieze New York, the tony art fair which opens its enormous tent at Randall’s Island Park on Friday, May 10, urging them not to attend, to refuse to participate, and to speak out against the fair’s use of non-union labor, which they say “breaks with the industry standard.”

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