A group of anonymous donors has pledged $25-million toward Chapman University’s construction of a 1,300-seat performing-arts center, the Los Angeles Times reports.

The donors said they would make the gift only if the university raised an equivalent sum from other sources.

In other arts news, The New York Times reports that the Kimball Art Museum, in Fort Worth, has acquired what might be the first known painting by Michelangelo. The late-15th-century “The Torment of St. Anthony” is believed by some scholars to have been painted by Michelangelo when he was 12 or 13.

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