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July 31, 2009

In the Arts: Baltimore Symphony Extends Pay Cuts, Museum Axes Film Program

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians have agreed to extend pay cuts and furloughs they voluntarily took three months ago, further reducing the cuts in their wages for the 2009-10 season from 5.7 percent to 12.5 percent, The Washington Post reports.

The orchestra has reduced spending by 13 percent this year after being hit with a 21 percent decline in the value of its endowment and a similar drop in revenue from single-ticket sales.

In other arts news, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will end its four-decades-old weekend cinema series in October, according to the Los Angeles Times. Museum officials said the program has lost $1-million in the past decade and they want to rethink the institution’s approach to film.

Also, the Times says that the San Diego Museum has acquired a major collection of works from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas from the Sana Art Foundation.

And FoxNews.com reports on complaints from some conservative groups over federal stimulus grants to small San Francisco arts organizations that present sexually explicit stage and film programs.

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