Businessman Eric Smidt is profiled in the LA Times this week, following a $25 million gift to LACMA.  “It takes gifts like this to get to that point of confidence so that others will invest,” says museum head Michael Govan. “It’s a new generation of people, and that’s what has to happen in the civic environment. The torch has to be passed.”

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