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Robin Parness Lipson, at home with Matthew Chambers’s “Rembrandt,” left, and “Follow Your Eyes,” by Simone Lucas.
ASBURY PARK, N.J. — When Robin Parness Lipson walks along the boardwalk here, she does not focus on the shirtless old men with fishing poles, the concrete relics of failed condominium developments or the pigeons who have taken up roost in the neglected Beaux-Arts landmarks along the shore.
What she sees are the bustling new restaurants and gift shops and the energy of a bright future being shaped. And as part of that future, she sees her baby, her dream, the New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art: a glittering monument to the idea that New Jersey is not just the home of Snooki and the Situation, or feuding housewives, or the Bada Bing Club, but a place where cultured, philanthropic people can build something that makes a difference.
Ms. Lipson also has a dozen young artists, curators, event planners and others who are part of her dream. These volunteers have done everything from build a Web site, njmoca.org, to plan an inaugural exhibition and gala on Oct. 23.
Ms. Lipson noted that while New Jersey had many regional museums, it had nothing that drew international tourism.
Read the whole story at The New York Times, by Kate Taylor
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