Museum Associates Organization

The state attorney general's office is reviewing a $972,135 low-interest loan by the private fund-raising arm of the Los Angeles County Art Museum that helped museum director Earl A. Powell III purchase a home in Hancock Park. The nonprofit group, Museum Associates, unanimously approved the secured 3% mortgage loan three years ago to get a larger place for fund-raising events and to encourage Powell to stay with the museum, said Daniel N.

Paving the way for what officials said would be a major expansion of L.A. County Museum of Art, the Board of Supervisors on Friday agreed in principle to a new 99-year contract that would assure continued public funding and provide interim financing for an expanded arts complex. The agreement with the non-profit Museum Associates, which manages LACMA, would restore some of the county's funds that have been taken from the museum and make possible the long-awaited purchase of the vacant May Co.

Paving the way for what officials said would be a major expansion of L.A. County Museum of Art, the Board of Supervisors on Friday agreed in principle to a new 99-year contract that would assure continued public funding and provide interim financing for an expanded arts complex. The agreement with the non-profit Museum Associates, which manages LACMA, would restore some of the county's funds that have been taken from the museum and make possible the long-awaited purchase of the vacant May Co.

Wounded by budgetary cutbacks and bleeding internally from staff reductions, the County Museum of Art has suffered another damaging blow to its once vigorous image. A messy lawsuit filed by one of its chief curators has made already low staff morale sink even deeper, and the museum's administration is facing sharp criticism from the art world for mistreating a longtime staple of the local and international arts community.

Wounded by budgetary cutbacks and bleeding internally from staff reductions, the County Museum of Art has suffered another damaging blow to its once vigorous image. A messy lawsuit filed by one of its chief curators has made already low staff morale sink even deeper, and the museum's administration is facing sharp criticism from the art world for mistreating a longtime staple of the local and international arts community.

A valuable collection of Hollywood artifacts and memorabilia is wasting away behind bars at the former Lincoln Heights jail because the City of Los Angeles has been unable to find anyone to take care of it.

The state attorney general's office is reviewing a $972,135 low-interest loan by the private fund-raising arm of the Los Angeles County Art Museum that helped museum director Earl A. Powell III purchase a home in Hancock Park. The nonprofit group, Museum Associates, unanimously approved the secured 3% mortgage loan three years ago to get a larger place for fund-raising events and to encourage Powell to stay with the museum, said Daniel N.