MARCH – AGNES GUND and SADIE HOPE-GUND
Agnes
Gund and Sadie Rain Hope-Gund share an interest in the arts. Agnes Gund
is Sadie's grandmother and a pre-eminent art collector and patron.
Sadie is a student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,
where she studies photography and media. The Gund family has supported
the arts for four generations. Agnes's father, George Gund II, was a
banker and businessman who expanded the family fortune in Cleveland,
Ohio, and created the George Gund Foundation for philanthropic projects.
Agnes was president of the board of the Museum of Modern Art in New
York from 1991 until 2002 and is now president emerita and the chairman
of MoMA's international council. She is also chairman of MoMA PS1. She
has served on the boards of many other arts organizations, including the
J. Paul Getty Trust, the Frick Collection, and the Robert Rauschenberg
Foundation. Her AG Foundation gives several million dollars a year to
cultural institutions and women's organizations. In 1977, she founded
Studio in a School, which brings professional artists into public
schools in New York City to teach the visual arts. Gund is one of the
most important collectors of modern and contemporary art. She has given,
or promised, much of her collection to museums. In 1997 she was awarded
the National Medal of Arts.
Fran Lebowitz is a master of social
commentary, although she doesn't practice it in the usual way. She
doesn't have a TV show or a newspaper column or a regular forum of any
kind
Shirin Neshat's first feature film,
Women Without Men (2009), which is set in 1953, when Iran's
democratically elected government was overthrown in a coup backed by the
CIA, won the Silver Lion for best director at the Venice Film Festival
Mellody Hobson is the president of
Ariel Investments, a Chicago money-management firm. She has been with
Ariel since 1991, when she graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of
International Relations and Public Policy at Princeton
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