I hope it was worth it, Americans. You are funding the obscene elite's leisure activities with your bailout.
But did you enjoy the football game they sponsored and brought to you today?
"Bank of America giving $10m to MFA; Firm now museum’s top corporate donor" by Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff | September 20, 2010
Bank of America will announce today a $10 million gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, a contribution split evenly between cash and art, with the centerpiece being a prized painting by contemporary artist Ellsworth Kelly. Coming after a $5 million contribution to the MFA’s capital campaign, the gift makes Bank of America the museum’s largest corporate donor, a status formerly held by State Street Corp.
The news highlights a remarkable trend for the MFA, as donations continue to flow after the museum’s successful $504 million expansion campaign, which was completed two years ago and set a record for cultural fund-raising in Boston.
In recognition of the latest gift, the MFA’s Huntington Avenue entrance plaza will be called the “Bank of America Plaza on the Avenue of the Arts’’ — a name chiseled into granite plinths that will be unveiled today by MFA director Malcolm Rogers and Anne Finucane, Bank of America’s global strategy and marketing officer....
I'm disgusted and it has nothing to do with art.
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