How the liberal rich use "art" and "friends" to get richer-----$12M donation will create dedicated space for women artists at Muskegon Museum of Art - mlive.com

$12M donation will create dedicated space for women artists at Muskegon Museum of Art - mlive.com

• Hmmm, "valued at" by whom?
• How much did this wonderful collection cost the donors?
• What's the tax break on this gift? (Highest SanFran resident tax bracket 53.3%. X $12 million= $6,396,000 in tax kickback to gifters!)
• Why aren't libs going crazy at this "perversion" of our tax system? Oh, art. "Women". Shut up!

"MUSKEGON, MI – The Muskegon Museum of Art will soon be one of the only museums in the world to have a space dedicated to artwork created by women, thanks to a recent multimillion-dollar donation from two San Francisco-based art collectors.

The museum has received more than 150 pieces of artwork donated by collectors Steven Alan Bennett and Elaine Melotti Schmidt, the museum announced last week.Valued at $10.5 million, the donated collection consists entirely of artwork created by female artists, all depicting women in a figurative realist style. 

Bennett and Schmidt also contributed a $1.5 million cash gift to help with the museum’s ongoing expansion plans..."