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Louis Aguirre was born in Cuba in 1968 and received a B.A. in composition from the Instituto Superior de Artes in Havana, where he studied with Harold Gramatges and Roberto Valera. He continued his studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and completed his studies at the Royal Conservatory of à rhus in Denmark. His music has been commissioned and performed by musicians including the Axyz Ensemble, Residencias Ensemble, Arditti String Quartet, Neo Percusión TrÃo, and the Santiago, Camagüey, and Havana Symphonies, among others. His works have been presented in leading contemporary music festivals, including Gaudeamus Week, Festival Internacional de Alicante, Foro de Música Nueva in Mexico, Festival Internacional de Musica de Morelia, Internationale Ferienkurse für neue musik, Darmstadt, and others. From 1995â2002 Aguirre was the general conductor and artistic director of the Camagüey Symphony Orchestra, as well as guest conductor of the
Workers at the Whitney Museum move to form a union
Installation view of Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019. Whitney Museum of American Art. Photograph by Sean Sime.
by Colin Moynihan
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Employees of the Whitney Museum of American Art are the latest group of museum workers in the city to take steps toward forming a union.
They are also the most recent example of museum employees who have chosen to organize under the wing of a union not everyone would associate with the art world: the United Automobile Workers.
A petition asking for a union vote was filed Monday with the National Labor Relations Board by the Technical, Office, and Professional Union, Local 2110 UAW.
New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Photo: Shinya Suzuki/Flickr. May 19, 2021 at 5:21pm
Employees at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York are petitioning to join the United Auto Workers union. Some 180 staff, including conservators, curators, educators, editors, porters, and visitor-services workers, on May 17 filed for representation by Local 2110 branch of UAW, which currently represents staff at the Museum of Modern Art, the New-York Historical Society, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, among other institutions. The news was originally reported in the
“Many of us are looking for more job security within our roles at the Whitney,” Karissa Francis, a visitor services assistant at the museum, said in a statement. Like institutions across the world, the Whitney was forced to lay off employees in the past year owing to the continuing Covid-19 crisis, with roughly 20 percent of workers there losing their jobs.