In the Arts: Movie Museum Gets Green Light in L.A.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences are teaming up to create a museum focused on the art of filmmaking, the Los Angeles Times writes.

The two organizations announced plans Tuesday to establish the new institution at a historic, 300,000-square-foot historic property owned by the art museum. The academy, the entity that hands out the Oscars, is to sign a long-term lease on the structure; develop plans for fund raising, design, and exhibitions; and manage the new museum.

Terry Semel, the co-chair of the art museum’s board and a former head of Warner Brothers, said it is “long overdue for the city that is home to the motion picture industry to recognize this art form with a museum of its own.”

In other arts news:

• The Los Angeles Philharmonic will take a lead role in building a U.S. music-education program modeled on El Sistema, the Venezuelan movement that produced the orchestra’s star conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, reports The New York Times.

The philharmonic will work with upstate New York’s Bard College and the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass. The schools, which are due to merge, will offer master’s degrees in El Sistema’s teaching methods. [Editor’s note: The previous paragraph has been updated to fix an error.]

Mr. Dudamel is the most famous graduate of the Venezuelan program, which mixes education and social work in using classical music to help improve the lives of poor children.

• A breakthrough could be imminent in contract talks between the Philadelphia Orchestra’s management and musicians, a development that would have major implications for the orchestra’s bankruptcy case, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Without a deal the Philadelphia Orchestra Association would probably seek to impose a new contract on musicians.