The Whitney Union Reaches Tentative Contract with Museum – ARTnews.com

After 16 months of negotiations, the Whitney Museum of Art has ratified its first contract with UAW Local 2110, which represents around 200 employees of the cultural institution, the museum and the union announced in statements Monday. The three-and-a-half-year labor agreement provides expanded benefits for the unionized workers, including raises and improved job security.  In August…

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A Wall Street Billionaire Shot Himself in His Family Office. His Death Is Reverberating in the Museum World, and the Art Market

In happier times, prominent friends would gather at the chic Sutton Place home of the billionaire museum trustees Thomas H. Lee and Ann Tenenbaum to celebrate their favorite causes amid paintings by 20th-century giants and electrifying works by living artists. A curved staircase, meanwhile, beckoned to ever higher realms above the bustle of Manhattan. This…

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