Hyperallergic's Weekly Roundup: Union Strike Votes, Met Wing Groundbreaking, and Damien Hirst Play

Key facts

• Unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, and American Folk Art Museum voted to authorize a strike if fair contract offers are not received.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art broke ground on its Tang Wing for modern and contemporary art, designed by Frida Escobedo.
• The School of Visual Arts will end its graduate Photography, Video, and Related Media program due to a mounting deficit.
• The Brooklyn Public Library launched its first-ever lending program for craft supplies.
• Pro-Palestine activists protested Igor Tulchinsky's financial backing of the Bayeux Tapestry exhibit at the British Museum over his financing of a community center in an illegal Israeli settlement in the Occupied West Bank.
• An inflatable cavatappi-shaped artwork inspired by Bulgari's serpent motif appeared on the High Line and will remain through New York Fashion Week.
• Donald Trump wants to replace José de Rivera's "Infinity" (1967) outside the National Museum of American History with a statue of George Washington.
• A Florida family was allegedly sold over 200 forged Andy Warhol artworks by an international network, according to a lawsuit.