“Workers at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada went on strike on Tuesday over claims that the museum’s wage policies are unfair. According to members of the union CUPE Local 15, tension between workers and the Vancouver Art Gallery has been mounting since a previous contract expired in June 2017, with attempts at negotiation mired in institutional politics.” — ARTnews
Lincoln Center Names New President: Henry Timms Of 92nd Street Y
“Lincoln Center, which has been buffeted by leadership churn in recent years, has looked to Broadway and academia for its last two presidents. They didn’t take. Now it is looking to the East Side of Manhattan, and to someone with a background running a large nonprofit cultural and community center.” — The New York Times
The Ruins Of Plato’s Academy, Where Everybody’s Getting Stoned
Philosopher Simon Critchley visits the Athens park that’s still called “Akadimia Platonos” and ruminates on what the site and its ancient proprietor were and were not — and what the place is now. (Yes, almost everyone he saw there was smoking weed.) — The New York Times
The Ballet Company Founded In The Hope That It Would Become Unnecessary
“At first glance it would seem to be the strangest of business models. But when Cassa Pancho, 40, decided to found Ballet Black in 2001, to give much-needed opportunities to black and Asian dancers, she did so with just one hope in mind: that one day the company would no longer have to exist.” — London Evening Standard