PhotoRobert S. Rubin, an investment banker and philanthropist who as the chairman of the Brooklyn Museum deflected Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s threat to censure an exhibit he considered sacrilegious, died on Saturday at a hospital in Manhattan. He also sought to slash the annual subsidies that made up about a third of the museum’s budget. Mr. Rubin offered compromises, but the city rejected them, and the museum countersued in federal court, arguing that the mayor was defying the First Amendment. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyEventually, as the court fight proceeded and the exhibit came and went, Mr. Giuliani called a cease-fire. He withdrew his suit over the show, which originated at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Source: New York Times March 22, 2018 22:07 UTC