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American Ambassador and American Hospital of Paris Honor Iris Cantor for Her Contributions to Healthcare for Women

[caption id="attachment_2278" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Top block of photos:top: Karin Charnoff-Katz, M.D.; Bernadette Toomey; Sharon Jacquet; Iris Cantor; Anne Moore, M.D.; Sam Selesnick, M.D.; Alexander Swistel, M.D.bottom left: Iris Cantor and Honorable Jane D. Hartley, U.S. Ambassador to France.bottom center: Susan Mascitelli, Iris Cantor, Ryan Fisherbottom right: Honorable Howard H. Leach, former U.S. Ambassador to France.[/caption] Iris Cantor, Founder and President of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, is recognized around the world for essentially redefining clinical health care for women — the result of her determination to move the medical establishment toward compassionate healthcare customized to each gender. This past June Iris visited Paris as guest of honor of American Ambassador Jane Hartley, the American Embassy, and the American Hospital of Paris. She was honored for her years of dedication to women's health around the world. Most importantly, her visit commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Iris and B. Gerald...

August 17, 2016
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Rodin: Portraits of a Lifetime, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections now on view at Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa

Residents and summer visitors to Cedar Rapids have the opportunity to see the Foundation's circulating exhibition, Rodin: Portraits of a Lifetime, now on view at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art until September 11. Part of a museum-wide celebration of portraiture, the exhibition's stop in Cedar Rapids is part of its three-year nation-wide tour. “The Rodin exhibition offers people a rare opportunity to see work by the most important sculptor since Michelangelo," said Sean Ulmer, the Museum's Executive Director. "Rodin redefined sculpture and ushered in the modern era. In many ways, he did for sculpture what the Impressionists did for painting.” Commenting on the long-term friendship between the Cantor Foundation and the Museum, Foundation Executive Director and Curator Judith Sobol noted that the Museum hosted a large Cantor Rodin respective in 1991 and has also been a "favorite place for loans. We are delighted that the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art continues to...

August 16, 2016
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Cantor Foundation Celebrates NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Fiftieth Anniversary

Iris Cantor and the Board of the Cantor Foundation joined with hundreds of friends, alumni, and supporters in celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. The April 4 event at Jazz at Lincoln Center raised a gala record of scholarship support for the much-admired school. The Cantor Family and the Cantor Foundation have been long-term and ardent supporters of Tisch. Previous Cantor support has included a Cantor Scholarship Fund and the creation of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Film Center. Most recently Iris Cantor announced her support for the construction of a state-of-the-art proscenium theater at the School. The performance space will be named the Iris Cantor Theater. As you can see by the photos, Tisch has a great many admirers!    ...

May 11, 2016
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San Antonio Museum of Art Celebrates Opening of Rodin: The Human Experience, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections

A week of events marked the early March opening at the San Antonio Museum of Art of the Foundation's large traveling exhibition, Rodin: The Human Experience, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collec-tions. Beautifully installed in one of the Museum's remodeled galleries -- the Museum is in a nineteenth-century brewery building -- the show opened with two days of receptions and a public lecture by Judith Sobol, Executive Director of the Cantor Foundation, who also curated the show. In San Antonio the show was installed under the expert stewardship of SAMA Curator of European Art Merribell Parsons and her team. (Merribell, Judith, and Cantor Foundation Vice President Ryan Fisher are left-to-right in the top left photograph, above.) It's always fascinating for us to see how different museums present our shows. The San Antonio Museum of Art wove the experience of this Rodin exhibition into a museum-wide multisensory tour it...

May 11, 2016
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Rodin’s Portraits of a Lifetime Draws Large Crowds at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina

Rodin’s glorious seven-foot tall figure of Claude Lorrain currently reigns over the elegant small art gallery at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The largest bronze in the exhibition Rodin: Portraits of a Lifetime: Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections, it has been a crowd pleaser since the exhibition opened to the public on February 11 in the University’s David McCune International Art Gallery. The exhibition includes many iconic Rodins, including Bust of Jean Baptiste Rodin (the artist’s father), Heroic Bust of Victor Hugo, Monumental Head of Balzac, Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose, Bust of Mrs. Russell, and The Creator, thought by many to be a self-portrait. Gallery Director Silvana Foti beams about the exhibition. “We are a gallery that you wouldn’t think would be able to get a show like Rodin. This type of exhibit would usually be in a museum with a huge staff,...

April 18, 2016
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Iris Cantor Gift Transforms Theater Possibilities at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts

Iris Cantor’s latest transformative gift was announced recently by New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Mrs. Cantor’s generosity will support the construction of a state-of-the-art proscenium theater at the School. The performance space – part of a planned multi-use building on Bleecker Street whose construction is due to start this year – will be named the Iris Cantor Theater. Tisch School of the Arts has been a long-time recipient of philanthropy from the Cantor Family and for the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation. “Education is the foundation of our intellectual existence, teaching us to challenge convention and push beyond boundaries. The arts remind us of what it means to be human -- a mission never more important than it is today,” said Mrs. Cantor. “With this most recent gift to NYU, I hope to reaffirm all the tremendous progress made by the Tisch School of the Arts in...

February 5, 2016
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Cantors Receive Exceptional Honor as Paris’ Musée Rodin Names Gallery ‘Hall Iris et B. Gerald Cantor’

[caption id="attachment_2146" align="aligncenter" width="300"] French Prime Minister Manuel Valls welcomes Iris Cantor and members of Cantor Foundation Board to Musée Rodin[/caption] Following three years of renovations that ended with five days of anticipatory celebrations, Paris’ beloved Musée Rodin opened to the public on November 12. The restored museum's days of celebrations honored Iris and B. Gerald Cantor for their six decades of support for the museum, support first initiated by B. Gerald Cantor and then continued by Mrs. Cantor. The museum has commemorated this support by naming the premier gallery of the Hotel Biron "Hall Iris et B. Gerald Cantor," an exceptional honor rarely given by a French museum. Iris Cantor was at the Musée Rodin with members of the Foundation Board and many friends to witness the ribbon cutting by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. M. Valls lauded the Cantors and recognized the two American philanthropists for their extraordinary advocacy not...

February 4, 2016
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GET YOUR PASSPORTS READY! Rodin Museum in Paris to reopen on November 12 after three years of extensive renovation

With the help of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, The Musée Rodin, often voted Paris’ most beloved museum, has during the past three years undergone a complete renovation.  This work has been the most extensive conducted since Auguste Rodin himself used the eighteenth-century palace more than 100 years ago.  The renovation will not only give visitors a better understanding of how the building looked and was used during Rodin’s time, it will also elevate the popular museum’s infrastructure to the high standards of today's modern museums.  In addition, the Musée’s staff is planning a complete re-installation of the artworks, emphasizing Rodin’s working methods. As Ryan Fisher, Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Cantor Foundation, explains, "The Cantors' support for the Musée Rodin goes back more than 60 years, to the days when Bernie Cantor became friends with the museum’s then-director, Cécile Goldscheider.  That support continues today...

September 17, 2015
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Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center Funds Groundbreaking Research in Women’s Health

[caption id="attachment_2107" align="alignleft" width="260"] At the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women’s Health Center Annual Lunch with the Scientists: (l to r) Ryan Fisher; Janet Pregler, M.D.; Mary Ann Cloyd; Cameron Diaz; Gail Greendale, M.D.; and Sandra Bark[/caption] This month we bring you news from one of our early healthcare partners, the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center.  Opening in 1995, the Center was one of the first in the nation to feature 'one stop shopping," as Iris Cantor calls it.  For the past few years the Woman's Health Center has also supported research, using funds raised especially for this purpose by its Executive Advisory Board.  Seeking to understand human sex differences in health and disease, awardees have conducted ground-breaking studies in medical issues and diseases unique to women and have developed and tested clinical interventions for women. All investigators at UCLA CTSI (Clinical and Translational Science Institute) centers are eligible for these research grants.   Recently five projects received these Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health...

September 17, 2015
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First Rodin Exhibition in Hawaii Opens at Honolulu Museum of Art

The Foundation's newest exhibition of Rodin sculpture, Auguste Rodin: The Human Experience, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections, opened July 22 to members of the Honolulu Museum of Art. More than 150 members attended the early evening reception, their opportunity to view the much-anticipated show before it opened to the general public. The Museum, which looks equally to Asia as well as to the Americas and Europe in its collections, programming, and visitors, provides a unique opportunity to highlight Rodin's popularity in Japan both during and after his lifetime. Plus the Museum has a cast of one of the artist's earliest pieces, The Age of Bronze, as well as sculpture by students of Rodin and other artists influenced by him. On opening day the Museum presented Foundation Director and Exhibition Curator Judith Sobol live for ten minutes on its Periscope; she spoke about the exhibition and fielded questions in...

August 18, 2015
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