NYU Institute of Fine Arts

First there was the renaming of the New York Public Library’s main branch for Blackstone’s Steven Schwarzman – he gave the temple of books $100 million for the honor.

And tonight, NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a black-tie dinner honoring Sheldon Solow, who last summer donated two floors of a townhouse, worth $2 million, to the Institute. The school will use the additional space to create a Sheldon H. Solow Library and Study Center.

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