the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The biggest contemporary art museum in America will be unveiled next month

In many countries rich art-buyers are deserting public institutions in favour of building their own private museums. Not in the Bay Area, where some 200 collectors have been persuaded to donate over 4,000 works of art to the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The biggest contemporary art museum in America will be unveiled next month

Building it took ingenuity, persuasiveness—and a lot of money

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