Arts Business Ownership – Statistics on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender  In the U.S. there are limited public data on the demographics of leadership and staff (as opposed to artists and participants) at arts organizations. Absent these statistics, one of our analysts turned to the Annual Business Survey (ABS), a collaboration between the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Science Foundation. – Sunil Iyengar
Meddling With Medici at the Met: Provocations & Proclamations  The Medici: Portraits and Politics, at the Metropolitan Museum to Oct. 11, is a curatorial tour de force that only a scholar like Keith Christiansen could pull off. With his retirement today today after 43 years at the Met, this show is his swansong at the museum. – Lee Rosenbaum
Tania León interview, 1989  The 2021 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music composition has not often been interviewed in the popular press, so here’s a Q&A I conducted with her as published in 1989 by Ear magazine. – Howard Mandel
Martha Baer, 82, Dies: Contemporary-Art Rainmaker in Christie’s Early Days in New York  I like to pay special tribute on CultureGrrl to art professionals who took time from their busy lives to deepen my limited understanding of art and the artworld, back when I was beginning my own professional journey. Martha Baer was one always reliable, unfailingly gracious source of help and knowledge. – Lee Rosenbaum
Inimitable  It is my privilege to partner a new Myrios Classics CD: Mozart’s two most important four-hand piano sonatas, importantly performed by Kirill Gerstein and Ferenc Rados. – Joseph Horowitz
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