As Budgets Are Cut, Culture Chiefs Aren’t Sacrificing

“City- and state-funded cultural institutions are cutting programs and slashing staff – even ‘firing’ the Bronx Zoo’s porcupine – and yet their CEO pay packages would make Wall Streeters blush.” That may be a bit hyperbolic (New York’s culture industry didn’t rake in $18.4 billion in bonuses last year, after all), but the perks for the head of one recently penny-pinching institution do include “an Upper East Side apartment and a full-time maid”….