Philanthropy
Knight Foundation awards $2.5m in grants to realise 43 Miami art projects
Funding will help bring the Creative Time Summit to South Florida, back a show on the Cuban artist José Antonio Aponte, and finance a “wine club for art” subscription collecting service
Culture is compromised by donations from the Sackler family: we must not accept any more of their money
Anna Somers Cocks on the revelations published in the New Yorker magazine
Business as usual for museums funded by Sackler opioid money?
Beneficiaries of the family’s largesse deflect or ignore questions about the donors’ role in the drugs epidemic sweeping the US
Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund awards $22m in grants to activist groups and social programmes
As well as backing arts-focused initiatives, the money will help support organisations working to change government policy
Valeria Napoleone's all-female art collection hits the road
The London-based philanthropist partners with Museums Sheffield to show works by women artists
Homegrown philanthropy fuels the new Speed Art Museum
Decade of renovation ends with marathon opening for expanded gallery
New programme aims to train future leaders of artist foundations
Seminar to be held in New York at the offices of influential philanthropic groups, including the Roy Lichtenstein and Joan Mitchell foundations
Taxing times: private museums under scrutiny by US government
Who benefits most from tax breaks on private art museums: patrons or the public?
Olafur Eliasson launches successful appeal to kickstart Little Sun's next big project
Solar-powered mobile phone charger is designed to fill gap in African market
Ford Foundation joins global fight against inequality
Grants of $500m will focus on fairness, president says
Artists do their bit to help US museums’ bottom line
Los Angeles institution gained $22.5m last month as endowments grow thanks to sale of artists’ gifts
Leonard Lauder: The man who put Cubism in the Met
The billionaire philanthropist reveals how he amassed a collection of works by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger with a museum in mind
‘Patience is not one of my virtues’: Eli Broad on his new museum's delayed opening
While construction continues, Broad has been busy buying art
LA Mayor spares the city’s cultural department despite financial pressure
The philanthropist Eli Broad will help the organisation focus on attracting tourists
The billionaire Eli Broad’s collection of post-war art goes on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Is this where it will come finally to rest?
Thinking Broadly at LACMA
Eli Broad leads subway route campaign in Los Angeles
Philanthropist joins group petitioning to expand LA Metro
Interview with Hilary Weston: Grimm in Florida
The importance of meditation, mirages and tuning out.
UK Treasury rules to stop museums spending donors' cash
National institutions reluctantly set up trusts to gain access to their own reserves
US art sponsorship suffering after economic crisis, survey shows
Corporate giving down 14% over three years according to Business Committee for the Arts
Carlos Slim Helu is world’s richest man
The Mexican billionaire is also a significant art collector
French institutions have lost their integrity by relying on private sponsors, leading fundraiser says
Longtime arts and heritage patron Olivier de Rohan denounces the increasing influence of external bodies on museums' creative decisions
Collector Richard Driehaus's private museum gets a classical makeover
Who said it was all about modernism?
Chicago's industrialist benefactors built the city’s art collections—but can today’s patrons maintain them?
So far the next generation have yet to replicate their parents’ efforts on the same scale
Norwegian dealer's estate to benefit charity
Médecins Sans Frontières will get millions from the sale
Anthony d’Offay deal with Tate and Scotland sets tax precedent for UK philanthropy
For his partial donation of £125m worth of art, the dealer received £26.5m—the price he originally paid for the collection—tax free
Warhol Foundation report looks back on 20 years of philanthropy
The New York organisation has disbursed more than $200m in cash grants and art donations since the artist's death in 1987