ELI BROAD VOWS TO KEEP HIS PROMISE TO LACMA

When Eli Broad pledged sixty million dollars to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, philanthropy insiders noted that three other LA arts benefactors—namely, J. Paul Getty, Norton Simon, and Armand Hammer—had each flirted with the idea of making similar donations to the county museum before ultimately deciding to found their own institutions. But, Christopher Reynolds reports in the Los Angeles Times, Broad is determined to be different. “Obviously, with the amount of money we’re going to spend, we could have built a museum independent of LACMA,” Broad said in a recent interview. “But I do believe in public institutions.”