"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 state in recent weeks has seen nearly 3,000 agents deployed in its streets by the Trump administration in an anti-immigration crackdown."
""It's a simple but important act of solidarity," Cristin Tierney, owner of the New York gallery of the same name, told Artforum. "We want the citizens of Minnesota and immigrants all across this country to know they are not alone. Our artists, our staff, our community-we are all standing with them. We are all Minnesotans now." The many galleries closing in New York include young operations"
Art spaces across the US will close on January 30 to support a nationwide general strike protesting Department of Homeland Security and ICE activity and federal deployments in Minnesota. Minnesota saw nearly 3,000 federal agents deployed in recent weeks during an anti-immigration crackdown. Federal agents killed two US citizens in Minneapolis: Renee Nicole Good on January 7 and Jeffrey Pretti on January 24. The general strike was organized by the grassroots National Shutdown and builds on a January 23 Minnesota strike called by a local Indivisible chapter to disrupt economic routines and demonstrate against federal occupation. Galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Denver, and Chicago are participating, accepting the cost of closures as a deliberate act of solidarity.
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