• Frieze is a for-profit event that pays less than $1/ sq ft to lease city park land for two months.
• Frieze makes art inaccessible to many working New Yorkers with a ticket price of $42 per person.
• Frieze would rather bring in low-wage, non-union labor from Wisconsin, than pay New Yorkers a living wage.
• Frieze is the only major NYC art fair using non-union labor to construct its fair.
TELL FRIEZE TO HIRE LOCAL & UNION!
Call the Frieze Office: 212 463 7488
Twitter: #FNY13 #FriezeRatFair @FriezeNewYork
Arts & Labor and Teamsters Local 814 also presented two statements at the Frieze New York panel with Nato Thompson and Suzanne Lacy on Friday, May 10, 2013. Read or watch the statements at artsandlabor.org/arts-and-labor-teamster-statements-on-frieze-new-york/.
