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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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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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