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Christina Grant served as chief of charter schools and innovation for the Philadelphia school district.

Plus, Georg Baselitz resigns from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts over pandemic response, and why we don't need another Eli Broad.

Private philanthropy leaves arts institutions at the mercy of patrons. It's time to increase public funding for the arts.

Private philanthropy leaves arts institutions at the mercy of patrons. It's time to increase public funding for the arts.

Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe The late businessman, philanthropist and art collector Eli Broad was drawn not only to Pop art, but also to Pop art created by white men: Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari and Jeff Koons most prominently among them. But when The Broad welcomes the public into its galleries on May 26 for the first time in more than a year, guests will notice several visible signs of an evolution. In signage...

Six Easter eggs in East Lansings new greetings from mural View Comments EAST LANSING – Earlier this month, two artists packed up their RV and traveled from California to East Lansing. When they arrived, they sent a postcard of sorts. Muralists Victor Ving and Lisa Beggs made East Lansing the latest stop on their Greetings Tour, a public art project in which the duo travels across the country painting greetings from postcards on buildings. They began painting East Lansings installation on ...

How will Californias arts institutions recover? The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a futuristic $1 billion building being financed by George Lucas, under construction in Exposition Park in Los Angeles, May 6, 2021. The city’s cultural institutions, buffeted by the pandemic, will have to recover without the help of Eli Broad, the transformational benefactor who died last month. Alex Welsh/The New York Times. by Jill Cowan and Adam Nagourney NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- As California emerges f...

A soaring arts scene in Los Angeles confronts a changing landscape A rendering of the new David Geffen Galleries at Lacma, a wavy, light-filled building being designed by Peter Zumthor. The city’s cultural institutions, buffeted by the pandemic, will have to recover without the help of Eli Broad, the transformational benefactor who died last month. Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner/The Boundary via The New York Times. by Adam Nagourney (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art i...

How Will California’s Arts Institutions Recover? Thursday: A conversation about major cultural institutions and philanthropy in the aftermath of the pandemic. Image The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a futuristic $1 billion building being financed by George Lucas, is under construction in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York Times Good morning. As California emerges from the pandemic, we’re beginning to get hints of the ways life will be different â...

Plus, a new effort urges the rich to support charities that strengthen democracy, and fighting falsehoods must be at the center of nonprofit and foundation work (opinion)