Monster Mash: 9/11 Museum to add Bin Laden death; New York City Ballet ends contract dispute
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Developing story: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum said it will incorporate changes to address the death of Osama bin Laden. (NBC New York)
Agreement: The New York City Ballet and its dancers have resolved their contract dispute. (Los Angeles Times)
Hard times: New York’s American Folk Art Museum is losing its executive director just as the organization has missed an interest payment on $31.9 million in bonds. (Bloomberg)
Paying tribute: British sculptor Anish Kapoor has dedicated his new monumental art installation in Paris to the imprisoned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. (Agence France-Presse)
Really? A recent survey suggests that arts graduates are finding jobs and personal satisfaction. (USA Today)
On hold: San Diego has suspended about $630,000 in public arts funding as the city wrestles with budgetary problems. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Online project: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com are recruiting the public to help build an online database of information on victims of the Holocaust. (Associated Press)
Sold: A Sotheby’s auction in New York has brought in $170 million -- near the low end of estimates -- for 44 works of art by masters including Picasso. (New York Times)
Windfall: Roy Roberts, a former executive at General Motors, has given a seven-figure donation to the Detroit Institute of Arts. (Detroit News)
Missing: A violin worth an estimated $23,000 was stolen from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. (San Francisco Examiner)
Also in the L.A. Times: Theater critic Charles McNulty weighs in on the Tony Award nominations; a look at ‘Re-Animator, the Musical,’ at the Steve Allen Theater.
-- David Ng
