It's Only Money, Honey

"Strengthening the museum will boost San Francisco's creative economy and the city's reputation as one of the world's greatest art cities," said SFMOMA director Neal Benezra. And with that we learn that the planned addition to the SFMOMA is budgeted at $325M and it'll need to raise another $230M to operate the new wing. But that's what it takes to house a modern art collection (courtesy of Don Fisher) that's worth more than a billion bucks. [SFGate]