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Bahamas National Trust, of the 30-acre Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve on the Island of Eleuthera; $ 3.7 million in 2007 for the creation of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center, which the foundation further endowed with a $ 10 million gift in 2024; and $ 200 million to
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National Park Service to the New York Philharmonic to identify, preserve and digitize archival collections so that they are available online to scholars and the public; $ 13.5 million in 2011 for the founding , in
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In 1995, White and her husband made a donation of $ 20 million for the renovation and expansion of the Met's Greek and Roman
Galleries; the Met’s largest cash donation up to that time. Philippe de Montebello, the Met’s director, said the gift “moves us significantly toward finally making the broad
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after having been shown evidence that the objects may have been surreptitiously removed from Roman ruins in
Icklingham, England. In 2008, White returned 9 pieces that the Italian government suggested had been questionably exported. In 2021 and 2022, investigators from Manhattan District Attorney
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in 2006 for the creation of the
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World for doctoral and post doctoral students that NYU President John Sexton said, would “chart a new course that will transform the way antiquity is conceived and taught, without geographic or cultural boundaries.”
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Alvin Bragg’s office returned 71 artifacts from the Levy-White collection to multiple countries, including Yemen, Turkey and Italy. In March, Bragg’s office “thank(ed) Shelby White for her assistance and cooperation with our investigation.”
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Over the next several decades, White and Levy accumulated a substantial collection of objects from different time periods and international origins. Many of the pieces in their collection are on display at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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spectrum of our Greek and Roman holdings accessible to all visitors.”
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Wilford, John Noble; Glater, Jonathan D. (March 21, 2006).
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Fabrikant, Geraldine; White, Shelby (April 30, 1995).
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