“Two of the key organizations that Citi Performing Arts Center has sought to merge or partner with, have formally cut off talks with the Citi Center,” formerly known as the Wang Center. “Leaders of the organizations cited a range of concerns, from the $1.2 million bonus paid to Citi Center president and CEO Josiah Spaulding Jr. last year to the impact that bad publicity from a series of Boston Globe articles about the Center could have on fund-raising.”