Cultural Institutions Group
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The Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) is a coalition of institutions providing cultural and educational resources to the public in New York City that are subsidized by the city government. The group originated in the last quarter of the 19th century with planning efforts by New York City to cope with becoming a major city. The organizations joined together in the mid-20th century to discuss and improve working conditions in New York City. Today, the CIG includes 34 cultural institutions.
History
The basic framework for the public-private partnerships between New York City and its 34 cultural institutions was established in the 19th century. The original concept of the partnerships has succeeded beyond its founders' most ambitious expectations.
1877-1945: The original partnerships
In the last quarter of the 19th century, the
1945-1976: Conflict and policy
From 1952 to 1967, an additional five organizations would begin to receive regular city support: Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1952; Queens Botanical Garden, 1962; New York Hall of Science, 1965; Wave Hill, 1965; Staten Island Historical Society, 1967.[1] In the 1950s the City and the cultural organizations engaged in protracted discussions over the issue of wages and working conditions of employees who were City reimbursed. Following a strike action against eight of the institutions in 1958 and 1959, the institutions met in 1960 in an informal organization which came to be known as the Cultural Institutions Group or CIG. The labor settlement that was eventually reached was an unconventional one that involved "tri-partite" bargaining and obligated the institutions and the City of New York to negotiate (and the city to pay for) wage and benefit increases, while working conditions were negotiated between the union and the individual organizations.
Having recognized a valuable community of interests, the CIG continued to meet to address other issues. In 1962, Mayor
1976-1990: Cultural affairs
Enabling legislation for a City
1990-Present: Government transitions and the budget
By the 1990s, two new organizations had joined the ranks of the CIG: Flushing Town Hall and the Museum of Jewish Heritage. With a new city charter redistributing budgeting powers from the Board of Estimate to the Mayor and a larger City Council and the implementation of term limits in 2001, the tentative pas de deux of the 1980s budget negotiations became a full-fledged ballet in the 1990s. Between 1980 and 2007, there were only two years when the proposed Executive Budget and the Adopted Budget for the Department of Cultural Affairs were the same.
Mayor
Member organizations
- American Museum of Natural History
- The Bronx County Historical Society
- The Bronx Museum of the Arts
- Brooklyn Academy of Music
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Brooklyn Children's Museum
- Brooklyn Museum
- Carnegie Hall
- Flushing Town Hall
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- El Museo del Barrio
- Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Museum of the City of New York
- Museum of the Moving Image
- The New York Botanical Garden
- New York City Center
- New York Hall of Science
- The New York Public Theater
- New York State Theater:
- MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center
- Queens Botanical Garden
- Queens Museum of Art
- Queens Theatre in the Park
- Snug Harbor Cultural Center
- Staten Island Botanical Garden
- Staten Island Children's Museum
- Staten Island Historical Society
- Staten Island Museum
- Staten Island Zoological Society
- The Studio Museum in Harlem
- Wave Hill
- Weeksville Heritage Center
- Wildlife Conservation Society:
References
- ^ Historic Richmondtown
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (13 August 2007). "New York City Department of Cultural Affairs - Arts Funds". The New York Times – via www.nytimes.com.