AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
As members of the arts community, we regret the Museum's refusal to
negotiate with its Professional and Administrative Staff Association. This
group, which went out on strike on April 28, includes curators, educators,
librarians, visitor assistants, and other workers vital to the health and
intellectual life of the institution. Their concerns deserve to be
addressed in good-faith bargaining sessions without further delay.
We urge New Yorkers and visitors to this city to honor the picket lines by
staying away from MoMA and its stores until the strike is settled.
Cecile Abish, Walter Abish, Vito Acconci, Peggy Ahwesh, Pedro Almodovar,
Emma Amos, Laurie Anderson, Jon Alpert, John Ashbery, Carole Ashley, Beth
B., Matt Bakkom, Bruno Barreto, Zoe Beloff, Robert Benton, Dara Birnbaum,
Isidro Blasco, Eric Bogosian, Joan Braderman, Chris Burden, David Byrne,
Cai Guo-Qiang, Maurizio Cattelan, Vija Celmins, Willie Cole, Maureen
Connor, John Coplans, Sylvia Chang, Douglas Crimp, Arthur C. Danto, Jules
Dassin, Roy DeCarava, Christopher Doyle, Barbara Ehrenreich, Nicole
Eisenman, Jane Farver, Eric Fischl, Julia Fish, Holly Fisher, Kenneth
Frampton, Su Friedrich, Coco Fusco, Rainer Ganahl, Leon Golub, Guerrilla
Girls, Lynn Gumpert, Hans Haacke, DeeDee Halleck, Peter Halley, Barbara
Hammer, Harmony Hammond, Ruth Hardinger, Melissa Harris, Todd Haynes, Jon
Hendricks, David Hunt, Hitomi Iwasaki, Alfredo Jaar, Julia Jacquette, Ken
Jacobs, Jim Jarmusch, Joan Jonas, Bill T. Jones, Tom Kalin, Mary Kelly,
Silvia Kolbowski, Komar and Melamid, Joyce Kozloff, Chris Kraus, Barbara
Kruger, Mike Leigh, Warren Leight, Leung Chi Wo, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard,
Sylvere Lotringer, Mary Lucier, David Marsh, John Moore, Thurston Moore,
Errol Morris, Paul Morrissey, Antonio Muntadas, Jane Necol, C. Michael
Norton, Francois Ozon, Malcolm Payne, Howardena Pindell, Gerald Posner,
Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Maggie Renzi, Richard Rezac, Martha
Rosler, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, John Sayles, Adrian Saxek, Carolee
Schneemann, Martin Scorsese, Brigit Shields, Shelly Silver, Joan Simon,
Karina Skvirsky, Valerie Smith, Michael Snow, Joan Snyder, Susan Sontag,
Nancy Spero, Art Spiegelman, Steven Spielberg, May Stevens, Quentin
Tarantino, Bertrand Tavernier, Diana Thater, Reiko Tomii, Momoyo
Torimitsu, Jose Urbach, Francesc Torres, Tony Walton, Elizabeth
Weatherford, Lawrence Weiner, Lawrence Weschler, Donald E. Westlake,
Edmund White, Frederick Wiseman, Wong Kar-Wai, Sara Wong, Alan Wynn,
Philip Yenawine, John Zorn.
For more information about the strike, please see http://2110uaw.org.
Jenny Tobias
Associate Librarian, Reference (on strike)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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