Ending a yearlong search, the Philadelphia Orchestra has hired the longtime head of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as its new president and CEO, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Allison B. Vulgamore, who got her start in arts administration with the Philadelphia ensemble in the early 1980s and led the Atlanta Symphony for 16 years, will take up her new post in February. She arrives at a time of crisis for the 109-year-old orchestra, which faces a large deficit, has spent most of it unrestricted endowment, and has been without a permanent president, board chairman, or music director for several months.

In other arts news, David J. Rubinstein, managing director of private-equity powerhouse the Carlyle Group, has donated $10-million to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, notes The New York Times. The gift will support a $1.2-billion redevelopment project at Lincoln Center, on whose board Mr. Rubinstein serves as vice chairman.

And Bloomberg assesses the financial fallout from the Seattle Art Museum’s property deal with failed bank Washington Mutual. Before it collapsed, the bank was paying $5.8-million a year to lease 16 stories the museum had built atop Washington Mutual’s headquarters tower for the art institution’s future expansion.

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