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The Man Behind the Rubin Museum of Art

Misha Lyuve | Posted 12.07.2011 | New York
Read More: New York Art, Donald Rubin, Art Beauty Life Blog, The Rubin Museum, Himalayan Art, Tibetan Art, Rubin Museum of Art, New York News
Misha Lyuve

This story is about a man who took Barney's NY, a swanky department store in central Manhattan and converted it into an art sanctuary, the Rubin Museum.

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Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art -- in Atlanta

Jim Luce | Posted 06.04.2011 | Arts
Read More: Rebecca M. Brown, Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, Mirabai Films, South Asian Art, Atlanta, Melanie Einzig, Sundaram Tagore, Mira Nair, Susan S. Bean, Don Rubin, Nalini Malani, Seema Kohli, Rubin Museum of Art, Aroon Shivdasani, Lawrence M. Schall, Kamal Mitra, Cuban Art, Indian-American Culture, Indo-American Arts Council, Edward Wilkinson, Shelley Rubin, Chelsea, Human Rights, Himalayan Art, Goddess, Oglethorpe University, Sakti Burman, Francis Newton Souza, Krishna Shamrao Kulkarni, Art, Lion, Arpita Singh, Arts News
Jim Luce

Don Rubin and his wife Shelley have introduced an exceptional, personal collection of modern and contemporary South Asian art at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta.

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The Rubins on "What is Cuban Art?"

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
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Jim Luce

Both the island and the art are an unusual mix of the traditional and the modern, of the ordinary and the special, of simplicity and incredible complexity.

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