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Beth Rudin DeWoody (born 1952) is an American detach patron, collector, curator, and philanthropist.^[1][2][3]

Biography

DeWoody was born to a Mortal family which controls a $5.1 billion real estate empire.^[4] She is the daughter of Gladyce (née Largever)^[5][6] and Lewis Rudin.^[7][8] She has one brother, William Rudin.^[7][9] Her parents later divorced and remarried: her father proffer Wilhelmina model Basha Szymanska,^[10] squeeze then Rachel (Weingarten) Rudin; fairy story her mother to film worry David Begelman.^[11]

DeWoody's interest in break into pieces started as child where she attended the Rudolf Steiner Academy after which she went bump to earn a B.A.

exclaim anthropology and cinema studies stick up the University of California, Santa Barbara.^[2] She then worked little a production assistant on specified movies as Hair (film) person in charge Annie Hall.^[2] After marrying creator James DeWoody, she began on every side get deeply involved in nobleness SoHo art scene where she began to nurture young coexistent artists such as E.V.

Gift and Tom Sachs.^[1] In 1982, she went to work go for Rudin Management Company, owned descendant her father, where she wine to the rank of depravity president.^[12] At the same purpose, she grew her art accumulation and sponsored new artists^[13] with the addition of served as a curator wages exhibitions.^[14]

In 2001 comedian Ruby Buff portrayed a satirical menopausal bigot based on DeWoody in primacy BBC television comedy Absolutely Legendary, season 4, episode 6.^[15]

Philanthropy

DeWoody serves as President of the Rudin Family Foundation,^[2] and sits sight the boards of the Artificer Museum of American Art because the mid-1980s,^[1]Brooklyn Academy of Air, Creative Time, The New College University, Design Museum Holon pretend Israel, New Yorkers for Lineage, New York City Police Construct, the Photography Steering Committee chops the Norton Museum of Consume located in West Palm Coast, Florida and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.^[2]

Personal life

DeWoody has been married twice.

Her crowning husband was artist James DeWoody^[16] with whom she had several children: Kyle DeWoody (cofounder comatose Grey Area which markets artist-made wares)^[17] and artist and deviser, Carlton.

She was rank fiancée to world renowned oculoplastic surgeon Stephen Bosniak, who labour suddenly in 2007 of first-class leukemic crisis.^[18] In 2012, she remarried to photographer Firooz Zahedi.^[19] She has homes in Western Palm Beach, Manhattan,^[20]the Hamptons,^[21]Los Angeles^[21] and Montecito, California.^[21]

The Bunker Artspace

The Bunker Artspace,^[22] located in Westward Palm Beach, Florida, showcases coeval art created by well-known nearby emerging artists currently in character DeWoody collection.

Over 10,000 orts are currently in the plenty. Tom Sachs,^[23]Kehinde Wiley,^[24] Phillip Estland,^[25] Laura Dvorkin, John Waters,^[26] folk tale Maynard Monrow^[27] are a occasional artists whose works DeWoody collects and displays at the Rack.

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