In the Arts: Striking Detroit Symphony Musicians Reject Offer

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will probably lose its entire 2010-11 season with musicians’ rejection Saturday of what the organization’s managers termed their final contract offer, the Detroit Free Press says.

With half the season already lost to a 20-week-old strike, symphony officials suspended the remaining 3½ months of the program and released scheduled guest artists from winter and spring contracts. The 2011-12 season remains in limbo.

While management and musicians have reached consensus on the framework of a three-year, $36-million deal, major disagreements remain over base pay for players, symphony demands that musicians do more community-outreach work, and other details.

In other arts news, the Seaport Museum New York, which has struggled financially for more than decade, now appears close to sinking, The New York Times writes.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the city’s cultural-affairs commissioner met last week with Frank J. Sciame, the museum’s chairman, to discuss the institution’s future after it furloughed 32 workers, half of its staff.

Amid deepening deficits, Mr. Sciame has lent the museum $3-million since March to cover operating expenses, and future exhibitions are on hold.