New York Arts Orgs Warn Of Cuts If City Budget Passes

New York cultural groups detail the cuts they will have to make if the city’s proposed budget goes through with arts funding cuts. Closed galleries at city museums, new admission fees… “The report warns in particular that as many as 1,000 staff members would have to be dismissed under the mayor’s budget plan, adding to the 450 jobs already eliminated in the 2002-3 fiscal year.”