UAE Travel Ban on Gulf Labor member Prof. Andrew Ross
GULF LABOR WORKING GROUP LETTER TO GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Subject: UAE Travel Ban on Prof. Andrew Ross
GULF LABOR WORKING GROUP LETTER TO GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Subject: UAE Travel Ban on Prof. Andrew Ross
Gulf Labor statement on the Boycott and UAE Travel Restrictions March 9, 2017 We would like to offer the following statement, as many of our friends, colleagues, fellow signatories, as well as allies within institutions in the region and around the world gather once more in the Gulf this spring. Since 2011 the Gulf Labor … Continue reading Gulf Labor statement on Boycott and UAE Travel Restrictions
Press release (PDF) here: https://gulflabour.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Gulf_Labor_Press_Release_Apr18.pdf Timeline (PDF): https://gulflabour.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Gulf_Labor_Timeline_April18.pdf Guggenheim Breaks Off Negotiations with Gulf Labor On April 13, 2016, Guggenheim Board of Trustees unilaterally severed negotiations with the Gulf Labor Coalition (GLC). In a conference call, the Guggenheim1 informed GLC that they will no longer meet with us, nor listen to our proposals about the living … Continue reading Gulf Labor Responds to Guggenheim Breaking off Negotiations
Paula Chakravartty, a member of Gulf Labor Coalition, responds to an article published in ArtFCity on June 3rd titled, “Too Little Too Late: The Art World’s Letter-Writing Campaign to the UAE.”
The AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE DER WELT (Academy of the Arts of the World Cologne) has issued a statement against the travel bans imposed on Andrew Ross, Ashok Sukumaran and Walid Raad, a founding member of the academy. Their statement in full:
Statement from Walid Raad: Dear friends, On May 11, 2015, I was denied entry to the UAE at Dubai airport. At Immigration in the Arrivals Terminal, UAE officials pulled me to the side and escorted me to a waiting room. Immigration officers came back two hours later to inform me that I was being denied … Continue reading Artist, Gulf Labor member Walid Raad denied entry to and deported from the UAE
May 2019
Hyperallergic: Boycott of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
December 2016
TAZ: Miserable Working Conditions
The New Yorker: The Gulf Art War: New Museums in the Emirates raise the issue of workers’ rights
October 2016
Hyperallergic:“Gulf Labor Criticizes Guggenheim’s Silence on Migrant Workers’ Rights”
August 2016
New York Times: “The Guggenheim Is Going Global. Kind Of.”
July 2, 2015 TO: HE Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Chairman, Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority, Abu Dhabi, UAE. CC: Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York, NY, USA. William Mack, Chairman, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY, USA. John Sexton, President, New York University, New York, NY, … Continue reading Letter from Six Documenta Curators to Institutions in the UAE
June 1, 2015