Winter 2012 Interns Apply Now
Some of the summer 2012 Hyperallergic interns working together at Hyperallergic HQ in Williamsburg.Hyperallergic is looking for a few good interns for the first quarter (January to April) of 2012.If...
View ArticleNew Summer Program Puts Students in the Studio
The Contemporary Artist Job Description, put together by Los Angeles artist Garnet Hertz. Michael Mandiberg sent this to me to illustrate why the Arts Practicum is important: to close the perception...
View ArticleThe Art World Plague of Unpaid Internships
In February, Occupy Wall Street’s Arts & Labor working group issued a call on the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) to stop issuing ads for unpaid internships. Yet NYFA continues to publish...
View ArticleLeading the Way: Arts Council England Launches Paid Internship Program!
The graffiti speaks the truth. (image via jpegy.com)We’ve written before about the plague of unpaid internships in the art world, so we were super excited to see that Arts Council England is launching...
View ArticleApply to Be a Hyperallergic Intern!
Hyperallergic is looking for a few good interns for the first quarter (January to April) of 2013. If you think you got what it takes please fill out our form by December 26 and we’ll let you know by...
View ArticleUnpaid Interns Fight Back
(via canadiananimationresources.ca)In a big victory for unpaid internship lawsuits, a federal judge ruled last Tuesday that two interns who worked on the movie Black Swan for Fox Searchlight Pictures...
View ArticleFive Things I Learned While Teaching a Class on Arts and Labor
Photo of decaying labor movement mosaic in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY. (image via Carlos Martinez)In August and September I facilitated a class focused on labor issues within the arts. Specifically,...
View ArticleSpike Lee Doesn’t Do the Right Thing [UPDATED]
Left: Juan Luis Garcia’s initial design for a poster for Spike Lee’s “Oldboy”; right: a final poster for the film (via juanluisgarcia.com)When famed film director Spike Lee launched a Kickstarter...
View ArticleSanta’s Con: Protestors Challenge Serpentine Gallery on Unpaid Labor
Our suggested change to the sign at the Serpentine Gallery in London. (original image via Walter Lim’s Flickrstream)Over the weekend, an activist group calling itself Future Interns descended upon the...
View ArticleUnpaid Work Alert: Performa Seeks Writers [UPDATED]
(image by Flattr, via Flickr)Yesterday over email, Performa publicized a call they’d announced a few weeks earlier, seeking writers-in-residence for 2014. The well-known performance art biennial also...
View ArticleOntario Reins In Unpaid Magazine Internships
(image via jpegy.com)The Ontario provincial government has begun cracking down on unpaid internships at magazines, shutting down programs at The Walrus, Toronto Life, Fashion Magazine, and Quill &...
View ArticleBritish Museum Wants Someone to Update Its Website for Free [UPDATED]
The central atrium of the British Museum, London (photo by William Warby/Flickr) The British Museum is a flagship cultural institution with 2013 expenditures of £115.4 million (~$186.2 million). It is...
View ArticleA New Afterlife for Cemeteries: Training Future Preservationists
Interns at work in the Woodlawn Cemetery Preservation Training Program (photo by Susan Olsen, courtesy World Monuments Fund) The sprawling 19th-century cemeteries whose monuments and mausoleums dot the...
View ArticleWhite Woman Sues Getty Foundation Over Multicultural Internship Program
Detail of Rogier van der Weyden’s “Deposition” (c. 1435) (image via Wikimedia) Rejection sure is tough, especially when you’re a white applicant vying for a spot in a museum internship program that’s...
View ArticleWhy We Need the Getty’s Multicultural Internship Program
The Getty Center (photo by woolennium/Flickr) There’s a saying: “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” A new lawsuit by a woman named Samantha Niemann embodies this...
View ArticleThings to Know and Consider Before Taking an Unpaid Internship
A sentiment that’s becoming more typical within the Intern Industrial Complex (photo by Sean MacEntee/Flickr) A few years ago I worked at a commercial art gallery on the Lower East Side as the...
View ArticleThe Growing Tide Against Unpaid Internships
Internships have largely remained outside the conversation about diversity and equality in museums. Economist Richard Reeves is bent on changing that.
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