Nita Ambani, the founder and chairperson of the Reliance Foundation, has been elected an honourary trustee of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the arts powerhouse of the US.
Announcing her election by the board, the museum’s chairman Daniel Brodsky said, “Mrs Ambani’s commitment to The Met and to preserving and promoting India’s art and culture is truly exceptional. Her support has an enormous impact on the Museum’s ability to study and display art from every corner of the world.”
Reliance Foundation has sponsored key cultural events such as The Elephanta Festival, and Abbaji, the annual concert of master musician Ustad Zakir Hussain, in its mission to recognise the cultural legends of India and ensure their relevance to a younger generation.
With Reliance Foundation’s sponsorship, the Met will hold next year the exhibition — Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 B.C.–A.D. 400 that will cover topics such as 17th-century Mughal art and contemporary Indian sculpture.
The museum said that “in her role as founder and chairperson of Reliance Foundation, Mrs Ambani has impacted the lives of more than 34 million people across India through the organisation’s initiatives in rural transformation, health, education, sports for development, disaster response, arts, culture and heritage, and urban renewal.”
