NYC’S CULTURAL LEADERS CONSIDER OLYMPIC POSSIBILITIES

Would New York City’s arts institutions benefit from hosting the Summer Olympics in 2012? Many, if not most, of the city’s cultural leaders say yes, with a few reservations, Georgette Gouveia reports in the Journal News (Westchester), and expect to participate in a pull-out-all-the-stops cultural Olympiad should the city be awarded the Games on July 6. “To bring people in for an event which the whole world will be watching is very exciting to us, and we would do whatever we could to cooperate,” said Lisa Schubert, director of external affairs for the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan. Harold Holzer, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s senior vice president for external affairs, said the Met may envision a show similar to the exhibit it created to complement the 2004 Games in Athens.