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Workers at the Minneapolis Institute of Art have begun an informational picket outside of the museum, the Minnesota Reformer reported Thursday.

Temporary employees at the museum, who refer to themselves as “casuals,” unionized in 2021 with OPEIU (Office and Professional Employees Union) Local 12. The unionization process was prompted by massive layoffs of “casual” employees during the pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, those employees numbered around 100, but were then shaved down to 35. Before unionization, most of the “casual” workers did not make the Minneapolis-suggested wage of $15 an hour.

The workers have criticized the way museum leadership handled the economic hardships of 2020, pointing out that the leadership at Mia only took a 15% pay cut whereas leaders at other museums sacrificed much more of their high salaries to keep staff on retention.

“Instead, Mia officials decided to layoff those that are in the lowest-paid positions and the most precarious of financial positions,” reads a 2021 petition from when the Mia staff were first agitating for unionization. “As a result, these decisions have disproportionately affected Mia’s BIPOC staff (which primarily retain non-managerial or grant-funded positions in the museum).”

The union now represents 150 curators and other non-managerial staff who have been fighting for a 16% wage increase over two-and-a-half years, as well as medical benefits.

Thursday’s VIP preview at Frieze Los Angeles was packed with celebrities and art world heavy hitters alike, including actress Margot Robbie, record producer Benny Blanco, model Heidi Klum, and entrepreneur Laure Hériard Dubreuil. With significant interest following the pandemic, the fair appeared to be back in full swing.

Past VIP days at Frieze’s various editions have felt more “like waiting for a sneaker drop than trying to get into an art fair,” an adviser told ARTnews senior editor Daniel Cassady, who reported on the tumult of prior scenes. This one felt no different, with the aisles crowded throughout the day.

Below are selected highlights from the fair’s preview.

ARTnews and Los Angeles–based lifestyle brand, PLEASURES, announced Friday that they will be releasing a unisex apparel collaboration. The collection will launch on February 18.

“We wanted to educate our audience about the importance of art not only in culture, but also in media through one of the most premier platforms: ARTnews,” said PLEASURES cofounder, Alex James. “The merging of fashion and art is not a new concept but something that will surely live on.” 

Collaborations between the art world and fashion have a long history. For example, the O.G. art/fashion project, Dalí + Schiaparelli, as ARTnews editor-in-chief Sarah Douglas wrote in 2021, brought us the Shoe hat, the Lobster dress, the Tears dress, and the Skeleton dress. Other artist x fashion collaborations have included Hank Willis Thomas and Helmut Lang, Richard Prince and Louis Vuitton, and Anne Imhof and Burberry. Most recently, Louis Vuitton released a new collaboration with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

The ARTnews and PLEASURES collection includes a hoodie in black and gray colorways, a long-sleeve T-shirt in both black and white, a T-shirt available in black and gray, and baseball caps in black and in white.

Have a look at the new collection below and watch out for the drop here:

Catalan authorities have recovered a cache of graphic works by Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró that were stolen last year in Barcelona. 

Police have detained three brothers, aged 50, 53 and 55, who allegedly targeted homes in Barcelona’s high-end neighboorhoods that held fine art and luxury goods. The robbery ring has been under investigation since January 2022 as part of operation ‘Gresca,’ and, on Friday, police announced that a trove of stolen jewelry and banknotes and art, including two 100-year-old illustrations by Dalí, were seized from the suspect’s hideout.

The Dalí charcoal drawings, pastoral scenes on brown paper and valued around $300,000, were authenticated by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, which manages the Surrealist’s legacy. The two works date to 1922 and were created on the request of the writer Pere Coromine for his book Les Gràcies de l’Empordà (The Empordà’s Graces in Catalan).

Two other suspects were arrested on charges of receiving the stolen goods and have been released along with the three brothers were released on bail ahead of the trial, per a report in Reuters in Friday.

Five works attributed to Miro were recovered and are currently awaiting authentication by the artist’s estate. Two pieces by the painter Paco Sola were also found on the scene, along with precious antiques, such as silver and golden pens, as well as coins and jewels.

Shipping might not be a glamorous aspect of the art industry, but it is an essential service crucial to successful exhibitions, acquisitions, and archival collections, as well as the growing import and export of art.

For the Frieze Los Angeles art fair, this means dozens of galleries — from across the city and around the world — shipping artworks to the Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hangar in hopes they will be snapped up by collectors, curators, and other institutions.

Art shipping and transport is a service often provided at a premium by logistics companies like Maquette Fine Art Services and Crozier Fine Arts. Many of these companies offer art shipping and transport in conjunction with custom touring crates and protective containers, shipping preparation, and installation, as well as short and long-term storage. Art insurance is a separate matter, purchased from companies like Chubb and Berkeley Asset Protection.

In addition to arranging transportation logistics, art shipping companies help clients navigate security issues, customs, taxes, duties, as well as import and export regulations for different countries. With the international nature of the modern art industry, all of this is necessary in order to ensure artworks are moved safely and securely to and from artist studios, museums, galleries, and 300-plus art fairs and biennales, as well as the homes of private collectors.

Here are the most important things experts told ARTnews about art shipping: