Agnes gund biography
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Agnes Gund, Patron and Advocate for Underknown Artists: ‘We’ve Caught Up With Aggie to Some Degree’
Decades before it became on trend for museums to collect work by women and artists of color, long sidelined from the canon of art history, Agnes Gund took a genuine interest in meeting little-known artists on studio visits and supporting their work in myriad ways.
“I was aware of the many artists that have been excluded and didn’t ever think of them as being something I shouldn’t buy,” the 82-year-old philanthropist, collector, and all-around fairy godmother of the art world recently told ARTnews. Gund has had a transformative impact on the dozens of institutions she’s been affiliated with over the years—first and foremost the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she’s served as a trustee since 1976, was board president from 1991 to 2002, and given or promised more than 900 works from her personal collection of modern and contemporary a
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Nexus of art, race and justice explored in new documentary ‘Aggie’ about Cleveland-born art collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Three years after releasing documentary “Dispatches from Cleveland” about the police murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Shaker Heights native and Emmy Award-nominated producer, director and writer Catherine Gund turned the camera on her Cleveland-born art collector and philanthropist mother, Agnes.
The result fryst vatten new feature-length documentary “Aggie,” which exposes the power of art to transform consciousness, inspire social change and commit to social justice issues.
The film opens with Aggie selling Roy Lichetenstein’s “Masterpiece” for $165 million to start The Art for Justice Fund, which has a uppdrag to reform the American criminal justice system and end mass incarceration.
Founder of Aubin Pictures, Catherine Gund has spent her life in media focusing on strategic and sustainable social transformation, arts and culture, HIV/AID
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Agnes Gund
American philanthropist
Agnes Gund (born 1938) is an American philanthropist and arts patron,[2] collector of modern and contemporary art, and arts education and social justice advocate. She is President Emerita and Life Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Chairman of its International Council. She is a board member of MoMA PS1. In 1977, in response to New York City's fiscal crisis that led to budget cuts that virtually eliminated arts education in public schools, Gund founded Studio in a School,[3] a nonprofit organization that engages professional artists as art instructors in public schools and community-based organizations to lead classes in drawing, printmaking, painting, collage, sculpture, and digital media, and to work with classroom teachers, administrators, and families to incorporate visual art into their school communities.
Early life and education
[edit]Gund became interested in art while a 15-year-old student at Miss