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US Art Spaces Shutter Nationwide in Support of General Strike Protesting ICE
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Artforum
Art spaces across the US and abroad will go dark tomorrow, Friday, January 30, in support of a nationwide general strike in protest of Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity across the country, especially in Minnesota.
The general strike was initiated by the decentralized grassroots movement National Shutdown.
“It’s a simple but important act of solidarity,” Cristin Tierney, owner of the New York gallery of the same name, told Artforum.
Gallery; Newark, New Jersey’s Project for Empty Space; and the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
The general strike has its supporters in Europe, too, with Bern, Switzerland’s Gallery Kendra Jayne Patrick and Paris’s Bridgette Muholland announcing they would shutter for the day.