Samuel Lindenbaum gets elected trustee for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol announced that Samuel H. Lindenbaum, the acknowledged dean of New York City's land use bar, has been elected an honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Lindenbaum, counsel with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, is one of New York's most respected attorneys in the fields of land use and zoning. He serves as a member of the firm's land use department, as a member of the executive committee of the board of governors of the Real Estate Board of New York and as a founder, director and vice president of the Association for a Better New York. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (colloquially, Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard Law is considered one of the most prestigious law schools in the United States. , Mr. Lindenbaum has long been an active supporter of the arts and art institutions. Twice a member of the New York State Council on the Arts The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York. It was established in 1960 through a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell (1905-1996), with backing from Governor Nelson , he currently serves as chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors of the American Friends of the Israel Museum and as a member of the advisory board of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a small museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Containing prinicipally the personal art collection of Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979), a former wife of artist Max in New York. He is also a member of the board of overseers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) is a graduate school of Yeshiva University. It is a private medical school located in the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus of Yeshiva University in the Morris Park , the real estate committee board of UJA-Federation and as chairman of the executive committee of the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged. A resident of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Mr. Lindenbaum is a member of the Metropolitan Museum's chairman's council and real estate council. His wife, Linda, serves on the visiting committee and friends group for the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, and on the visiting committee for the Department of 19th Century, Modern and Contemporary Art. In 2000, Mr. and Mrs. Lindenbaum made a significant contribution to the Museum, in recognition of which the Mesoamerican gallery in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing was named for Mr. Lindenbaum's parents, Abraham M. and Belle Lindenbaum. |
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