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Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation / News (Page 4)

Health Care Comes to Rodin Sculpture

The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation actively lends its wonderful collection of Rodin sculpture to museums all over the world. We do this with the assurance that our museum partners take very good care of our sculptures. Yet with the passage of time and with the rigors of crating/ uncrating/crating again -- no matter how careful -- bronze sculpture periodically needs some TLC from the docs -- er, conservators -- who know just what to do to keep the artworks healthy both in fact and in appearance. Thus every few years we bring in our team of conservators to check all the Rodins and to perform as-needed 'healthcare.' This happened most recently in October at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, on the occasion of the then-impending opening of our new traveling show. Here's a look at our consultant conservators hard at work. [gallery columns="2" ids="1995,2001,1997,2000"]...

July 2, 2015
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Over $5 Million Raised: NewYork-Presbyterian Honors Iris Cantor for Her Visionary Support for Improved Health Care for Women

Iris Cantor’s long-standing commitment to NewYork-Presbyterian, and particularly to the unique health-care needs of women, was celebrated by the venerable hospital at its annual Gala in April. More than 1300 people participated in the event, which also honored Carmen and John Thain. The Gala featured a special concert by Kelly Clarkson, who performed some of her biggest hits. Internationally-lauded for her commitment to improving health care for women, Mrs. Cantor created the hospital’s Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center in 2002. Today it is one of the most comprehensive medical facilities for women in the world, having served more than 200,000 women (and men) since its founding. According to Center Director Orly Etinger, M.D., it demonstrates daily Mrs. Cantor’s inspiration for the Center: Convenience is an incentive to good health. Today, the Cantor model for clinical care for women is widely admired and emulated. And even copied close to home: in 2011 Iris...

July 2, 2015
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Cantor Foundation Exhibitions Booked through 2017

Busy schedules await the Foundation's two traveling exhibitions of works by Auguste Rodin, which can be seen together until June 14 at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown Pennsylvania. When this combined show closes this summer at the Michener it will separate into two thematic shows that will travel through 2017. The Honolulu Museum of Art is the first stop for a 32-piece exhibition that features Rodin bronzes of various subjects by the French master. The show is titled Rodin: The Human Experience, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections. It opens to the public on July 23 and marks the first exhibition of Rodin's bronzes in Hawaii. From here it goes to the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, opening in March 2016. The final stop in 2016 will be the Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond in Virginia. It opens...

July 2, 2015
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Busy Schedule of Rodin Traveling Exhibitions To Continue

Busy schedules await the Foundation's two traveling exhibitions of works by Auguste Rodin, which can be seen together until June 14 at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown Pennsylvania.  When this combined show closes this summer at the Michener it will separate into two thematic shows that are committed through 2017. The first stop for a 32-piece exhibition that features bronzes of all kinds by the French master and is titled Rodin:  The Human Experience, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collections, is the Honolulu Museum of Art, where it opens in July 2015.  This will be the first exhibition of Rodin's bronzes in Hawaii.  From here it goes to the San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas, opening in March 2016.  The final stop in 2016 will be the Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond in Virginia.  It opens here in August...

April 27, 2015
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Six Hundred Attend Michener Art Museum Members Reception for “Rodin: The Human Experience”

[caption id="attachment_1842" align="alignleft" width="178"] The Michener Art Museum the evening of the Members Reception for "Rodin:  The Human Experience"[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1843" align="alignright" width="178"] Michener Museum members admire Rodin's 1892 "Nude Study of Balzac (Type C)"[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1844" align="aligncenter" width="178"] At the Member Reception, Cantor Executive Director and Curator Judith Sobol (l), Michner Director & CEO Lisa Tremper Hanover, and Director of the Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Lynn Marsden-Atlass (r)[/caption] On February 28 the Foundation's acclaimed new exhibition of sculpture by Auguste Rodin opened at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.  The members' opening reception, on a snowy Friday evening, was attended by 600 people who celebrated the selection of 52 works, all from the Cantor collections.  The exhibition at the Michener is augmented by a superb small show of sculpture and drawings by contemporary American artists, many of whom are represented in the Museum's collection or on loan from...

March 25, 2015
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Foundation Newly Presents More Ways To Learn about Rodin

We are always looking for new ways to introduce people to the work of August Rodin. And we've just come up with three more! Now Rodin lovers may download the Foundation's award-winning film, Rodin: The Gates of Hell directly from Amazon....

February 11, 2015
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Iris Cantor Lauded by Lupus Fundation

[caption id="attachment_1768" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Iris Cantor, Richard DeScherer, Willie Geist, Mayor Bloomberg[/caption] The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation and the Lupus Research Institute honored Iris Cantor, Chairman and President of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, at its annual Life Without Lupus Gala in November.  Mrs. Cantor was celebrated as a trailblazer in bringing the power of philanthropy to transform medical research and care.  Particularly fitting, the award was presented by Herb Pardes, M.D., retired president and chief executive and current executive vice chairman of New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Board of Trustees. There Ms. Cantor led the creation of the Iris Cantor Women's Health Center as well as New York's first Men's Health Center, also named in her honor.  In her acceptance remarks, she noted that "philanthropy and innovation go hand in hand. Through philanthropy we can accelerate the path from concept to practice." With close to 600 members of Metropolitan New York's philanthropic, government, business, art, music, society and healthcare communities...

January 9, 2015
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Rodin Exhibition Opens at Dixon Gallery and Gardens

A new exhibition of 49 works by Auguste Rodin and three portraits of him by others opened in October at Memphis' Dixon Gallery and Gardens.  The show is an extraordinary insight into the French artist's capacity to fill his bronzes with emotion, movement, and multiple meanings, a capacity that transformed sculpture at the beginning of the 20th Century from an art of description to one of evocation. The Dixon Gallery's presentation of Rodin:  The Human Experience, Selections from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collections honors the memory of John Buchanan, who was Director of the Memphis museum in 1988 when it exhibited its first Rodin exhibition.  Buchanan, who went on to direct the Portland Art Museum (Oregon) and the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, died in 2012.  “We thought that dedicating Rodin: The Human Experience to John would be a way of indicating the debt of gratitude that we owe him,”...

December 15, 2014
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Cantor Collections Exhibition to Travel to Six Museums

[caption id="attachment_648" align="alignnone" width="300"] 2012 exhibition at University of Laverne[/caption] Beginning in October, a new exhibition organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation begins a three-year tour of American art museums.  The show, entitled Rodin:  The Human Experience, Selections from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collections, continues the Cantor tradition of sharing its great Rodin sculpture collections with the public.  Opening at Memphis' Dixon Gallery and Gardens on 19 October 2014, the exhibition reveals all aspects of Rodin's work as the artist who bridged the divide between tradition and modernism in sculpture.  From the Dixon it travels to the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown PA, where it opens on 28 February 2015.  The exhibition, comprised of 32 pieces, will be augmented at these first two venues with the addition of 18 Rodin portrait bronzes and two portraits of Rodin. Following these showings, the exhibition travels to the Honolulu...

September 18, 2014
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Iris Cantor Health Centers at Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital Featured in Annual Report

In its most recent annual report, the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College featured the Iris Cantor Women’s and Men’s Health Centers, lauding their work in clinical care, research, and health education.  Dr. Orli Etingin, Director of the Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center, is shown receiving an award earlier in the year for her exceptional leadership. To read the entire article in bigger print, click here. ...

September 17, 2014
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