STAFF CUT AND SALARIES FROZEN AT CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART

The Cleveland Museum of Art, hurt by the economic downturn that has battered arts institutions across the nation, announced Monday that it is laying off thirty-seven full- and part-time employees and that it will not fill eighteen open positions, Steven Litt reports in the Plain Dealer. The cuts, effective immediately, include an across-the-board salary freeze for the 496 employees remaining after the reduction. All senior administrators, including museum director Katharine Reid, will take a 5 percent pay cut.