Art collector and patron Agnes Gund, who is auctioning Roy Lichtenstein’s "Mirror #5" (1970) at Christie’s on November 17 to support reproductive rights, has devoted her adult life to art collecting and philanthropy.⁠ ⁠ Her first effort to combine the two occurred in 1977, when she founded Studio in a School, a New York–based nonprofit that subsidizes art education programs, after reading that the government would roll back arts funding in public schools. For more than 40 years, the organization has introduced Gund’s artist friends, like Jeff Koons and Clifford Ross, to students who might never have been encouraged to express themselves through the arts.⁠ ⁠ “Aggie’s the best, and her passion for the arts is contagious,” former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg told us in 2018. “She did an amazing job chairing our Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission, and she knows how to inspire artists and create great organizations. She is revered as a philanthropist because she is so effective, and she generously supports a wide variety of good work in our city and around the country.” Read more at the link in bio. (🖊️: @derekblasberg, 📷️: Taryn Simon)