Museum Loses Successful Director as Budget Shrinks

The Las Vegas Museum of Art has accepted the abrupt resignation of Libby Lumpkin, a successful leader who was credited with transforming the institution from a local museum that relied on traveling exhibits to a contemporary art museum with a reputation for innovative programming and for instituting plans for an endowment and a new facility, the Las Vegas Sun reports. The museum is struggling financially and will have to operate with a 2009 budget of less than $1-million.