Mixed Messages Send Arts Workers Scrambling for Pay During the Coronavirus Crisis

For weeks, freelancers and employees at Pace Gallery have received mixed messages about whether they would receive payment during the enterprise’s Covid-19 closure in New York. After telling ARTnews on Tuesday that it would continue to offer wages for as long as possible, the gallery quickly backtracked, informing its freelancers by email that all scheduled work would be canceled and rescheduled to a later date. Workers were also informed that the mega-gallery could soon make layoffs. When