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Donna and Howard Stone:
Recent and Promised Gifts of Art
Donna and Howard Stone have given a generous gift to name a gallery for film, video, and new media, which will bear
their name in the Modern Wing. Throughout the couple’s extraordinary history as patrons of the Art Institute,
they have given, loaned, and provided support for the purchase of more than 50 works of art by such influential
artists as Felix Gonzáles-Torres, Steve McQueen, Cady Noland, Diana Thater, and Rosemarie Trockel. Most recently, the
Stones have indicated their intent to give their entire collection of nearly 20 new media works to the museum. This
collection, one of the choicest groupings of new media works in private hands in the U.S., includes landmark
installation works by artists Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Shirin Neshat, Anri Sala, and others.
Howard Stone is a trustee of the Art Institute and vice chair of the Board of Governors of the School of the Art
Institute. He is also chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of the School and the museum’s Committee on Contemporary
Art. Donna Stone is a member of the Committee on Prints and Drawings. She and her husband are members of the Society for
Contemporary Art and among the foremost collectors of contemporary art in Chicago. This outstanding leadership gift provides
an extraordinary boost to the contemporary collection and will be exhibited in new video galleries bearing their name.
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Diana Theater. Delphine, 1999. Howard and Donna Stone New Media Fund.
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