Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Supports Artists As Catalysts For Social Change
Upon reading that the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation announced the 2017 grantees for its Art & Social Justice Initiative, I thought not of Donald Trump, but of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Why's that, you ask?
Simple. The primary driver behind the Rubin Foundation's grant—the idea that artists should be catalysts for social change—is gaining more currency across the arts philanthropy field, much to the detriment of evergreen institutions like the Met...