Word: rubenstein
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...Bedford Hills] it costs the same to incarcerate a woman for a year as to send her to Harvard for a year," filmmaker Benay Rubenstein said...
...Rubenstein's documentary "The Last Generation" said that prisoners often did not get fair opportunities for education when they were young. Prison, she said, should be a place where people can get a second chance...
...Rubenstein said that there is a direct link between education and crime. The parents' level of education determines the child's, she said, and 40 percent of state prison inmates cannot read...
...Academic instinct might suggest that the viewer compare each piece in the show with that of a well-known artist of the contemporary canon. A still life by Barnet Rubenstein can be likened to the work of Wayne Thiebaud, or an oil-and-wax painting by David Ortins seems like a disciplined Franz Kline. Yet this exhibit demonstrates that this is precisely not the point; the works are to be judged on their own terms, within their own visual languages. If anything, the most liberating aspect of the show is its unfamiliarity. It is the experience of thinking and seeing...