For Some Strapped Museums, Universities Are Saviors

“[S]everal of the country’s small and medium-size museums have been turning to the art-world equivalent of a bailout. They are partnering with a university or other academic institution, in some cases handing over artworks and changing locations, in a last-ditch effort to keep their doors open and their collections intact and available to the public.”

Arakawa, Whose Work Battled Aging, Death, Dies At 73

Conceptual artist and designer Arakawa and his wife, Madeline Gins, “explored their philosophy, which they called Reversible Destiny, in poems, books, paintings and, when they found clients, buildings. … All of it was meant, the couple explained, to lead its users into a perpetually ‘tentative’ relationship with their surroundings, and thereby keep them young.”

Gerard Mortier Got Handsome City Opera Severance

“Mortier earned a salary of $65,000 and ‘severance’ of $335,000. City Opera hired Mortier in February 2007 when he was still helming the Paris Opera. He was expected to take up his position in New York in September 2009,” but he “resigned in November 2008, saying City Opera’s budget cuts … prevented him from fulfilling his vision.”

After Law & Order: A New Show To Fill Actors’ Playbill Bios

“‘The Good Wife’ is set in Chicago, yet its creators and writing team, Michelle and Robert King, said they decided to film in New York because [star Julianna] Margulies wished to remain based there. But they added that Ms. Margulies and Mark Saks, the show’s casting director, were passionate advocates of the city’s distinguished ranks of theater actors.”

If You Slip And Break Your Arm At Lincoln Center’s Fountain, Whom Do You Sue?

All of the major New York cultural organizations that operate on municipal property accept liability for any injuries or incidents that happen on that property – all except Lincoln Center. Now the City wants Lincoln Center to give the same indemnity that the Met Museum and the Brooklyn Academy of Music do. Lincoln Center is resisting.