NEW YORK: A Chinese-American couple has donated a record $125 million to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to renovate the space that houses its collection of modern and contemporary art, the institution said on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila).

The donation by Oscar Tang and his wife Agnes Hsu-Tang is the largest capital gift The Met — one of New York City's biggest tourist attractions — has ever received in its 151-year history.

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