A Museum of Their OwnA Museum of Their Own
Wealthy art collectors often donate or loan their treasures to museums. Rarely, though, do they create whole new museums to showcase their collections. Yet that is just what Shelley and Donald Rubin have done. This Oct. 2, the doors opened to The Rubin Museum of Art on New York City's West 17th Street. Inside the five-story building, is what's said to be one of the world's largest collections of Himalayan
November 1, 2004
Thrupthi Reddy
Wealthy art collectors often donate or loan their treasures to museums. Rarely, though, do they create whole new museums to showcase their collections. Yet that is just what Shelley and Donald Rubin have done.
This Oct. 2, the doors opened to The Rubin Museum of Art on New York City's West 17th Street. Inside the five-story building, is what's said to be one of the world's largest collections of Himalayan art — most of it donated by the Rubins. The RMA also is showing artwork that's been loaned by The Metropolitan Museum, The American Museum of Natural History and the Asia Society, among others.
The couple (whose fortune comes from founding the New York-based MultiPlan Inc., a nationwide independent network of healthcare prov...
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