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An Arts Patron Widens Her Reach With a Brooklyn Museum
Lonti Ebers is opening Amant to help artists create and display their work, not to show her own collection.
An exterior of the nonprofit arts institute Amant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.Credit.Sasha Maslov for The New York Times
May 4, 2021Updated 3:09 p.m. ET
When some collectors gather a critical mass of artworks, they decide to open a private museum to share their trove with the world.
But Lonti Ebers, who established the nonprofit institution Amant, has a different agenda: sharing art, but not her own.
Amant is scheduled to open the doors of a 21,000-square-foot, four-building campus in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 5. It features an on-site artist residency program as well as exhibition spaces that will be open to the public, at no cost.