Inspired by the spectacular new fountains outside Lincoln Center, the billionaire businessman David H. Koch has promised to spend $10-million or more to renovate the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s front entrance, says The Wall Street Journal.

The project will include a remake of the two currently dormant fountains outside the Met, an upgrade of exterior lighting, and a refurbished entrance plaza. Mr. Koch said he approached the Met’s president, Emily Rafferty, with the idea after seeing the “choreographed” water effects at the Lincoln Center fountain, which opened last fall.

In other arts news, Irene Lewis, the artistic director of Baltimore’s Center Stage since 1991, said she has been asked to leave the post, The Baltimore Sun writes.

Jay Smith, president of the board of Baltimore’s largest regional theater, confirmed that Ms. Lewis’s contract would not be renewed after next year but that she will continue with the organization as a consultant. A nationwide search for her successor has already begun.

Also, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art has appointed Michael Darling its new chief curator, The Wall Street Journal says. Mr. Darling, currently a curator at the Seattle Art Museum, will take up his new post July 12.

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