Donors Sweetened Directorâs Pay at MoMA
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For more than eight years, Glenn D. Lowryâs income was higher than the museum reported in its tax forms.
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When Genesio Morlacci left &#36;2.3 million to a small college here, many people were astonished at the wealth amassed by a man who operated a dry-cleaning shop and later worked as a part-time janitor in retirement. But to those who knew Morlacci well, his bequest came as no surprise.
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A local committee helping the Republican National Committee hold its New York convention raised roughly &#36;60 million to &#36;70 million in private money for the event. Corporate donors include:
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A donation of $35m made by a long-time patron is going to the San Francisco Opera.
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Emphasizing drawings and local artists, the Hammer Museum tries to enhance its holdings.
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Antonio Banderas and his wife, Melanie Griffith, paid $50,000 for works by Joan Miro and Salvador Dali at a charity event this week, an auction official said.
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The artist Deborah Kass owes her designer pal William Diamond (and her brother) for her Le Corbusier Grand Confort chairs.
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As its record-setting campaign heads to the finish line, the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday announced a $10 million gift from State Street Corp. , the largest single contribution from a corporation in the museum's history.
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W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian Institutionâs National Museum of the American Indian, spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself, The Washington Post reported. The painting, by Burton Silverman, a New York artist whose portraits have appeared on the cover of Time and in The New Yorker, hangs in the patronsâ lounge of the museum. Mr. West, 64, whose last day on the Smithsonian payroll was Monday, also spent more than $250,000 over four years on travel and hotels, the Smithsonian has confirmed. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California and chairwoman of the Rules Committee, have asked for independent investigations of the expenses. The Smithsonian said it did not comment on former employees. Similar questions about personal spending by the Smithsonianâs secretary, Lawrence M. Small, led to his resignation last March.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer has agreed to a pay raise for legislators, even as his budget called for strict cuts elsewhere, the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has told New York lawmakers.
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The combination of estimates that were too high and material that was too familiar made Wednesday nightâs sale of Impressionist and modern art at Sothebyâs a rocky evening.
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New York's Museum of Modern Art, one  of the world's most beloved art centers, returns to Manhattan  this week with a $425 million face-lift that has art lovers  abuzz but that its architect compares to a humble teacup.
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Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, said late Monday that he believed Eli Broadâs decision to keep his art collection in a private foundation that makes loans to museums is a positive development because it means none of the artworks will be sold, an act that would limit access to them by the Los Angeles museum and others. The museum will open the $56 million Broad Contemporary Art Museum next month, and it has long been speculated that Mr. Broad would donate his collection at least in part to the museum. But Mr. Broad said he had recently decided to keep his collection in his foundation because no museum, the Los Angeles one included, could commit to exhibiting a significant portion of it permanently. Asked if he viewed Mr. Broadâs decision as demonstrating a lack of confidence in him or the museum, Mr. Govan said: âQuite the reverse. Since Day 1 heâs privately and publicly given me a lot of support.â Mr. Govan said that âfrom the public perspective, I donât think most people care when they walk in the door whether the museum owns the works or not, as long as they donât lose themâ to private sales. And, he added, âheâs got 2,000 works, so there is plenty to go around.â.
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Nonprofit organizations have long used professional fund-raisers to help raise cash, often losing the bulk of the donations to the fund-raiser's fee.
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For the show "Greater New York," museum directors and curators will choose the work of 175 artists who they say best capture the city's contemporary art scene.
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The new head of one of Americaâs richestâand most troubledâarts organizations shares his vision for the museum.
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Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is working to make friends in Congress.