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Met Opera strikes deal with stagehands over pandemic pay
Workers build a set at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Sept. 13, 2019. The Met has offered to start paying many employees who have been furloughed without pay since April up to $1,500 a week in exchange for new union contracts that include long-term pay cuts, the companys general manager said in a meeting with staff on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- The Metropolitan Opera has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract with the union that represents its stagehands, increasing the likelihood that the company will return to the stage in September after its longest-ever shutdown.
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A room at the Tenement Museum in an as-yet unrestored space that will be dedicated to a 19th-century Black waiter, Joseph Moore, and his family, in New York, May 27, 2021. As the museum prepares to celebrate its reopening, it is researching an apartment re-creation dedicated to a Black family, introducing a neighborhood walking tour called Reclaiming Black Spaces and revising all of its apartment tours to look more squarely at the ways that race and racism shaped the opportunities open to the mostly white immigrants whose struggle and striving is explored there. (Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times.
After half a century, White Columns still surprises
Matthew Higgs, director and chief curator of White Columns, during the opening of the alternative spaces 50th anniversary exhibition in New York, June 5, 2021. New Yorks longest running alternative art space is celebrating its own near-mythic history as well as the twists and turns of the citys cultural scene. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
by Brett Sokol
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Im going to use a word youre not supposed to say, sculptor Jeffrey Lew declared with a touch of bravado. Im sort of a sociopath.