The Museum of Fine Arts announced today that its seven-year Building The New MFA campaign overtopped its goal by $4 million for a total $504 mil, a conclusion no more or less surprising than the annual setting of a new record haul for Jerry's Kids. We kick Malcolm Rogers in this space occasionally for one reason or another - including the radio-silence he kept over this campaign's numbers for years - but the man does know how to charm the cash out of the city's moneyed elite.
Some 25,674 people contributed to the campaign, and unlike Obama, the MFA isn't bragging about how many of those gifts were under $50. Doesn't work that way with art museums. Late September is the anticipated topping off for the new American Wing, with the entire building project set for a conclusion in late 2010. The MFA’s Gifts of Art Campaign, which ran at the same time, has received since its inception in 2001 nearly 10,000 gifts of art valued well over $140 million and more than $25 million for the purchase of art, a combined total of more than $165 million.
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