{"id":683,"date":"2005-04-29T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T16:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2005\/04\/the_dance_of_donors_cities_and\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T16:05:56","slug":"the_dance_of_donors_cities_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/the_dance_of_donors_cities_and.php","title":{"rendered":"The dance of donors, cities, and arts projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ramp-up to a new cultural facility is an exceptionally complex dance, between project proponents, public officials, public opinion, and private donors. What will we build? Where will we build it? Who will pay for it? And when are those payments due?<\/p>\n

That dance just entered a very public phase in Richmond, Virginia, after the Virginia Performing Arts Foundation acknowledged to the mayor<\/a> that it won’t meet a July 1 fundraising deadline. The group was to have raised $93 million by that date to support the development and construction of the new Virginia Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n

Problem is, the city support to the project seems contingent on that deadline being met. And now Mayor L. Douglas Wilder is suggesting the arts foundation has violated its earlier agreement:<\/p>\n

\n”What happened with [former City Manager Calvin D.] Jamison and [former Mayor Rudolph C.] McCollum is one thing,” Wilder said. ”This is something brand new, totally new, and we’ll deal with it accordingly.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A fascinating addition to the debate comes on the website of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which allows reader comments to its published articles. The comments posted to this story give a real flavor for public sentiment on both sides of the argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ramp-up to a new cultural facility is an exceptionally complex dance, between project proponents, public officials, public opinion, and private donors. What will we build? Where will we build it? Who will pay for it? And when are those payments due? That dance just entered a very public phase in Richmond, Virginia, after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}