D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Settles Rent Fight but Will Stay Put
The Tony Award-winning stage group and its landlord have reached an agreement to settle the financial dispute that threatened to evict the organization from its longtime home, according to The Washington Post.
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N.Y.’s Met Museum to Launch Global Forum for Museum Chiefs
The Global Museum Leaders Colloquium, to be hosted in April by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will convene 12 to 15 invited museum leaders from around the world for a dialogue on curating, collections, fundraising, and other mutual concerns, The Wall Street Journal writes.
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Ballot Fight Looms over New Site for S.F.’s Mexican Museum
A plan for a new 47-story high-rise that would include the museum received unanimous approval from the city’s Board of Supervisors Tuesday but is likely to face challenges, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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Jeffrey Deitch Leaving L.A.’s MOCA After Rocky Run
The art dealer-turned-museum director is departing from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles as the institution appears to be stabilizing its long-shaky finances, according to The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.
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Longtime Head of D.C.’s Meyer Foundation to Step Down
Julie Rogers, a pillar of the Washington, D.C., philanthropic community for nearly three decades as president and chief executive of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, will leave her post in a year, The Washington Post says.
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N.Y.’s Folk Art Museum Survives by Reining in Ambitions
The institution, which nearly closed two years ago after defaulting on a $32-million construction loan for a capacious new home, has stabilized with new leadership and lowered expectations, writes The New York Times.
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L.A.’s Contemporary-Art Museum Sets $100-Million Endowment Goal
A week after its trustees rejected a merger proposal, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced a $100-million campaign to build its endowment, which it says is already at $60-millioin, the Los Angeles Times writes.
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Opinion: L.A.’s Modern-Art Museum Should Distance Itself From Eli Broad
New York Times critic Roberta Smith asserts that “domineering” patron Eli Broad and a passive board of trustees threaten the future of Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
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L.A.’s MOCA in Partner Talks With National Gallery of Art
The five-year deal to collaborate on programming, research, and exhibitions would likely scotch, for now, a proposed merger between the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, according to The New York Times.
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N.Y.’s Metropolitan Museum Sued Over ‘Deceptive’ Suggested Fee
A Metropolitan Museum of Art member and two Czech tourists filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the New York City institution intentionally dupes millions of annual visitors into paying a $25 admission charge, Reuters writes.
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