LACMA NAMES TWO NEW BOARD CHAIRS

Elaine Wynn and Antony Ressler have been elected as the new board cochairs of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Andrew Brandon-Gordon and Terry Semel, the previous cochairs, will now be cochairs emeriti, reports David Ng in the Los Angeles Times.

Wynn, a prominent art collector, joined LACMA’s board of trustees in 2011. With her husband Steve Wynn, she is cofounder of Wynn Resorts. She was appointed to the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees in 2010, and Ng reports that she’s allegedly the buyer of the $142.4 million Francis Bacon triptych of Lucian Freud in 2013—a record auction sum at the time. Ressler, meanwhile, has served on LACMA’s board for the past decade. Cofounder of the financial firm Ares Management, he has been vice chair of the museum’s board, as well as cochair of its finance committee.