With most of its art installers on the picket line, the PMA says it is installing its blockbuster exhibit and plans to open it on time, Oct. 20.
is grappling with the first staff-wide strike in its history, complete with picket lines, mounting tension between those on the inside and colleagues on the outside, and the potential for serious institutional damage.
Given the snail’s pace of talks, and now the absence of any talks at all, some observers are questioning whether a timely opening of the Matisse show is even possible.
“The museum is not commenting on its special exhibition installation process, or on any strike contingency planning,” Keyes said in an official statement Friday. The union also posted Instagram photos on its Twitter feed that show workers – some nonunion PMA employees, and some not identified – hoisting and holding giant Matisse works, apparently hanging them on the walls of the Dorrance Galleries of the Art Museum. In one of the photographs, which could not be verified independently, a worker without gloves can be seen holding up a huge Matisse sketch – a basic violation of art handling procedures.
The two sides, according to estimates provided by some members of city council are all of $300,000 apart. Council member Cindy Bass called a seeming impasse over that “ridiculous.”
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