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The 700 faculty members at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, are the latest art workers to unionize, with 60 percent voting in favor. They will join the AFT/CFT, the California arm of the American Federation of Teachers. [Artforum]
Massachusetts’s Supreme Judicial Court said that a woman can pursue her suit against Harvard University for emotional distress that she alleges was caused by the publication of photos of her enslaved ancestors that are held by the school. A lower court had rejected her case. [Associated Press/Bloomberg]
Hedge-fund billionaire and major-league collector Ken Griffin is taking his talents to Miami, relocating his Citadel firm there from Chicago. In a letter to staff, he said that Florida offered a better business environment; Citadel said crime was also a factor. [The Wall Street Journal]
The Times has a rundown of how various art-world players are working to reduce their carbon footprints. Artist Olafur Eliasson, for one, has said that his studio will go carbon neutral in the next 10 years. [The New York Times]
The New Jersey house where artist Vaughn Spann lives with his family is filled with art by Stanley Whitney, Marcus Brutus, Kenny Scharf, and many more. [Architectural Digest]
A TRUE ORIGINAL. Music producer T Bone Burnett chatted with Variety about his plan to sell a new recording that Bob Dylan has made of his song “Blowin’ in the Wind” next month at Christie’s in London. Only a single disc has been made of it, and it carries a high estimate of £1 million (about $1.23 million). “Paintings sell for hundreds of millions of dollars,” Burnett said. “Why doesn’t a crucial piece of music sell for a million dollars?” It’s part of his effort to fight back streaming services that have pushed the price of music almost to zero. Music is “treated like any other commodity, like a jar of mayonnaise,” Burnett said. “I reject that.” [Variety]
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