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Public & Private in Britain

September 14, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Amid reports of artists’s protests over government funding cuts, Kate Taylor reports in the New York Times that

John Sainsbury, the former head of a British supermarket chain, has donated $38.5 million toward an expansion of the British Museum, the museum announced on Sunday. […] The British Museum is building a $360 million wing, designed by Richard Rogers, to house temporary exhibitions and a conservation center. The government has pledged roughly $35 million toward the new building.

British Museum Receives $38.5m Donation (Arts Beat/NYTimes)

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