We caught up with the entrepreneurial collector Hélène Nguyen-Ban on the works that have informed her worldview and her new endeavor, an art-discovery app.
Collector, patron and curator Melva Bucksbaum (1933-2015) was a passionate supporter of the arts throughout her life. Assembling a large collection of her own, Mrs. Bucksbaum was a risk-taking collector who focused on the artist, not art-world trends, and supported artists through her philanthropic work as well as studio acquisitions. She served as a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art and on many other boards including the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Drawing Center, and the International Council of the Tate, London. Mrs. Bucksbaum believed that art was part of our shared cultural heritage and over her lifetime donated many works of art to institutions. It is in that spirit that these works, gifted by her daughter, Mary Bucksbaum Scanlan, are being sold to benefit Art for Access at Bennington College. Art for Access celebrates Bennington College’s pioneering visual arts legacy by providing funding for s
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Vermont Business Magazine Bennington College has received a gift of some 500 works of art to benefit
Art for Access, an innovative fundraising program launched in 2018. Art for Access celebrates the College’s pioneering legacy in the visual arts by pursuing dual goals: to expand and enhance Bennington’s art holdings for teaching, enrichment, and enjoyment and to raise funds for scholarships through the sale of art, advancing the College’s commitment to equity, diversity, and access.
The gifted works including prints, photographs, paintings, drawings, sculpture are from the collection of noted art patron and curator
Melva Bucksbaum (1933-2015). In assembling her private collection, Mrs. Bucksbaum was a risk-taking collector who focused on the artist, not art-world trends, and supported artists through her philanthropic work as well as studio acquisitions. She served as a trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art and on many other boards including
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A cleaner has been arrested over the theft of gems worth £1million from Princess Firyal of Jordan s £6million London home.
The 65-year-old woman is alleged to have stolen diamond rings, bracelets, watches and earrings while working at the princess s home in the upmarket Belgravia area of London, according to reports.
Princess Firyal, 76, a humanitarian and philanthropist, is the former wife of Prince Muhammad bin Talal, the second son of the late King Talal of Jordan.
The suspect is alleged to have stolen the jewellery from the property before a 37-year-old relative allegedly sold the items through an auction house.