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In Hard Times Should Museums Be Allowed to Sell Their Artworks? by Dawoud Bey

The Art Institute of Chicago       ”Art Institute of Chicago Lays Off 22 Employees,” “Met Museum Lays Off 14% of Staff,” “Detroit Institute Dismisses 56 Full-time and Seven Part-time Staff,” “Spertus Cuts Its Hours to 2 1/2 Days A Month,” “High Museum Lays Off 15 More Workers,” and on and on it goes, across... Read more »
By dawoudbey,
July 6, 2009 at 10:05 pm
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(Updated) News - Did the mandate forcing the Art Institute to lower admission price cause layoffs?

Per Bad at Sports :The Art Institute of Chicago has laid some employees due to cost-cutting measures, supposedly as a direct effect of Alderman Burke’s push to force the Art Institute to lower its admission costs. Today there will be a town-hall tomorrow to announce other cost-saving measures (Update: see official announcement from the AI... Read more »
By KathrynBorn,
June 19, 2009 at 9:45 am
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