N.Y.’s Metropolitan Museum to Trim Staff As Deficit Grows
The art museum said Thursday that job and programming reductions and a slowdown on construction of a new wing are likely as part of a two-year restructuring to address a rising tide of red ink, The New York Times reports.
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List of Donald Trump’s Donations Does Not Include His Own Money, Says Report
From a list of 4,844 contributions provided by the presidential front-runner’s campaign, covering 2009 through 2014, none came from his personal wealth, according to The Washington Post.
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Post-‘Grand Bargain,’ Detroit Museum Tackles New Challenges
The Detroit Free Press looks at the state of the Detroit Institute of Arts and its effort to raise endowment funds a year after the city emerged from bankruptcy via an agreement in which the museum was a linchpin.
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If elected president, Jeb Bush would promote a tax plan that maintains deductions for charitable giving and provides other tax breaks for wealthy donors, the Republican candidate writes in a Wall Street Journal column.
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Opinion: Hail ‘Slacktivism’ — It Worked in ALS Fight
The ice-bucket challenge, derided by some observers at its height last summer as a symbolic social-media gesture, is significantly moving the needle in the search for treatments for the neurodegenerative disease ALS, writes Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times.
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Justice Dept. Backs Planned Parenthood in La. Funding Case
Stepping into a suit brought by Planned Parenthood, the agency told a federal judge that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s bid to cut off Medicaid funding to the women’s health nonprofit appears to violate federal law, the Associated Press reports.
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New Captain Puts N.Y.’s Seaport Museum on the Right Course
New York’s South Street Seaport Museum, long plagued by financial troubles and nearly done in by Hurricane Sandy, is righting itself under a leader with little prior museum experience but a deep background in seagoing and historic ships, writes The Wall Street Journal.
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D.C.’s Hirshhorn Defends Holding Anniversary Gala in NYC
Leaders at the Smithsonian’s contemporary-art museum tell The Washington Post that their decision to hold its 40th-anniversary gala in New York is part of an effort to broaden the museum’s audience and donor base and is not a snub of its hometown.
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Ex-Colgate U. President to Take Reins at D.C.’s Newseum
Officials at the financially troubled Washington, D.C., museum of journalism said Jeffrey Herbst’s fundraising prowess at Colgate was a factor in his hiring as the Newseum’s president and CEO, The Washington Post and the Associated Press report.
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Ice-Bucket Challenge Funds to Pay for Tests of New ALS Drug
A Cambridge nonprofit biotech company that received donations from last year’s viral fundraising event plans to begin human tests of the new drug next year, the Boston Business Journal reports.
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