In the Arts: Guggenheim Museum Cuts Jobs

The Guggenheim Foundation is eliminating 25 jobs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum despite record attendance at the New York institution, The New York Times reports.

The cuts, which will involve both laying off employees and leaving positions vacant, will be made across all departments, including curators. Along with administrative cost cutting, the layoffs will reduce the museum’s budget by about 9 percent, to $60-million.

In other arts news, North Shore Music Theater, once the biggest nonprofit stage in the Boston area, announced that it will close for good after failing to raise enough money to stay afloat, reports The Boston Globe. The theater canceled the second half of last season and laid off all but a skeleton staff, yet it remained $10-million in debt.

Also, the James Irvine Foundation will announce today its latest round of Arts Innovation Fund grants to help museums and performance arts groups develop new strategies to deliver art to the public, the Los Angeles Times reports. The Hammer Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, and San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater are among the recipients.

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