George Lindemann Journal - "The 2014 Whitney Biennial Is Taking Shape" @nytimes by CAROL VOGEL

The George Lindemann Journal

The Whitney Museum of American Art announced nearly a year ago that a trio of outside curators would be organizing the 2014 Biennial, each taking a floor of the museum. Each brings a different set of eyes and interests to the show.

They are Stuart Comer, the chief curator of media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art; Anthony Elms, an associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia; and Michelle Grabner, a professor in the painting and drawing department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as an artist with an exhibition this month at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.

Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders — the Whitney curators who put together the highly praised 2012 edition — will act as advisers overseeing the giant survey, which runs from March 7 through May 25 and takes the pulse of what’s happening in contemporary art today.

As the biennial — the last in its Marcel Breuer building at Madison Avenue and 75th Street — takes shape, details about its content are finally emerging. For starters, the show will include the work of just over 100 artists and collectives, more than twice the number of the 2012 Biennial. And as with the previous edition there is no overarching theme.

“Each curator chose a floor and divided up the artists very organically,” said Mr. Sanders, adding that these decisions, as well as the content of the biennial itself, have been made by the three curators. “Having three perspectives means you will get a mix of performance and media,” he said. “Visitors will also get an eye into the curatorial process.”

As it has in the past, the selection of artists includes a multigenerational mix, including some whose careers span the decades (Robert Ashley, Sheila Hicks, Louise Fishman, Sherrie Levine); dead artists (Sarah Charlesworth, Gretchen Bender and Tony Greene); and a hefty dose of emerging artists. There will also be more artist collectives or collaboratives than ever before, a reflection of a growing trend.

While in 2012 the curators devoted one floor solely to performance, this time around performances will pop up in different spaces throughout the entire building. “They chose a different path,” said Mr. Sanders. “Each curator naturally found their own voice.”

Among the artists involved in dance are Miguel Gutierrez, Taisha Paggett and Yve Laris Cohen, while Kevin Beasley, Charlemagne Palestine and Sergei Tcherepnin are all doing sound pieces. There will also be contemporary “operas” from the 1970s, including one by Mr. Ashley in collaboration with Alex Waterman, and performance pieces by Ei Arakawa, working with Carissa Rodriguez, and the performance group known as My Barbarian.

In selecting the artists, certain trends are inevitably starting to emerge. Among them, Ms. Sussman and Mr. Sanders said, will be a focus on artists involved in a multiplicity of disciplines, for instance writers who paint, painters who are also poets, filmmakers who create sculptures, and photographers who draw.

Craft seems to be part of the equation too. Lisa Anne Auerbach, a conceptual artist based on the West Coast, has knitted sweaters; artists including Shio Kusaka, John Mason and Sterling Ruby have made ceramic works. There will also be textiles by Ms. Hicks; tooled leather wall pieces created by Carol Jackson and woodworking from the sculptor Alma Allen.

As was evident at this year’s Venice Biennale, there will be an emphasis on archival materials. Joseph Grigely, the artist, “got the archive of critic Gregory Battcock and will have vitrines showing all kinds of ephemera from it,” Ms. Sussman said.

Mr. Sanders added, “There’s a definite response to new media.” Triple Canopy, an online journal, will be presenting a project in the gallery and Semiotext(e) will also present a new series of publications.

In years past the Biennial has been criticized for the absence of painting, but Ms. Sussman and Mr. Sanders said there will be lots of it this year, especially works by abstract artists like Rebecca Morris, Molly Zuckerman Hartung, Laura Owens, Jacqueline Humphries, Louise Fishman, Amy Sillman, Suzanne McClelland, Etel Adnan, Dan Walsh and Elijah Burgher.

Frequently there is something outrageous to ogle. (In 2012, the Los Angeles artist Dawn Kasper moved into the museum.) Mr. Sanders said it was still too early to say if there would be any off-the-wall moments because many of the performance projects are still being shaped.

There have also been years when the Biennial has extended beyond its own four walls, striking out into Central Park and once at the Park Avenue Armory. This year the multimedia artist Tony Tasset will be creating out an outdoor sculpture in Hudson River Park.

“Hudson River Park is a place people actually use,” Mr. Sanders said. “It also takes you outside the fray of the city.”

A LITTLE COLOR FOR WINTER

Two public art projects scheduled for February and March will be especially visible in the city’s bleak winter landscape.

In Madison Square Park — that six-acre swath of green between Madison and Fifth Avenues, from 23rd to 26th Streets — the Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro will create a site-specific installation on view from Feb. 20 through March 30. Called “This Land is Your Land,” from the 1940 Woody Guthrie folk song, it will consist of glowing neon words reflected within three water towers installed throughout the park. Seven feet in diameter and resting on eight-foot-tall supports, the water towers, an integral part of New York’s skyline repeat their neon message perpetually.

“It’s our 28th exhibition over the last 10 years,” said Debbie Landau, president of the Madison Square Park Conservancy.

Uptown, at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza at 60th street and Fifth Avenue, the Swiss-born artist Olaf Breuning has created six clouds rendered as childlike drawings and fashioned from polished blue fiberglass that tower 35 feet high. On view from March 4 through Aug. 24, the work is a playful, almost cartoon-like, installation.

“There is a D.I.Y. quality to it,” said Nicholas Baume, the Public Art Fund’s director and chief curator who organized the project.

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This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: November 16, 2013

A report in the Inside Art column on Friday about plans for the 2014 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art gave outdated credentials for two of the curators. Stuart Comer is the chief curator of media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art; he is no longer the film curator at the Tate Modern in London. And Michelle Grabner is a professor in the painting and drawing department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; she is no longer the chairwoman of that department. (Terry R. Myers became chairman in August.) The article also misspelled the name of a publisher that will present a series of publications at the biennial. It is Semiotext(e), not Semotext(e).

A version of this article appears in print on November 15, 2013, on page C26 of the New York edition with the headline: The Whitney’s 2014 Biennial Starts Taking Shape.

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meet the president

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Dear Bass Museum Members and Friends,
2012 has been a dynamic year at the Bass Museum of Art! In January, we kicked off the year by inaugurating the Lindemann Family Creativity Center, showing our strong commitment to IDEA@thebass, our education program that uses art as a catalyst to promote creativity. 578 hours of education programs and thirteen weeks of art camp later, the Bass Museum of Art has become Miami Beach’s hub for art learning.

Thought-provoking exhibitions mounted this past spring, charles ledray: bass museum of art and this past summer, UNNATURAL, were both originated by our museum and accompanied by scholarly catalogues, presented important international artists, most for the first time in Miami. We hope you had a chance to view the exhibitions, if not, the beautiful catalogues are available in our shop, elemental@thebass.

This fall, the Bass Museum of Art officially launched tc: temporary contemporary, the museum’s public art program in partnership with the City of Miami Beach. Thanks to generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Knight Foundation, ArtPlace, and Funding Arts Network, this program will featuring local and international artists like Susan Philipsz, Christina Lei Rodriguez, Stefan Bruggemann, Michael Linares, Ugo Rondinone, Rob Pruitt, George Sánchez-Calderón, Marco Brambilla and Agustina Woodgate, among others, throughout the City of Miami Beach—on walls, in trees, in storefronts and more. The program’s tagline says it best: “art in unexpected places.”

Our current exhibition breaks with both the thematic group show and solo exhibition formats: The Endless Renaissance: Six Solo Artist Projects | Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Barry X Ball, Walead Beshty, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ged Quinn and Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook presents solo projects by international contemporary artists, whose works address the museum’s mission statement: we inspire and educate by exploring the connections between our historical collections and contemporary art. In an array of media from bronze, marble and oil paint to photographyand video, these artist’s projects will address concerns such as provenance, spirituality and art history in a unique and inspiring way.

Additionally, for the second year running and concurrent with Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Public in collaboration with the Bass Museum of Art will turn Collins Park into an outdoor exhibition space with large scale sculptures, videos, installations and live performances. Produced in collaboration with the Bass Museum of Art, the Art Basel Miami Beach sector includes works from the show’s galleries, by leading and emerging international artists, installed from ground level within the park to flying along the Miami Beach skyline above.

Warm regards,
George Lindemann, President
Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art

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George Lindemann Wins Inaugural Better Beach Award

March 26, 2013

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Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce has awarded George Lindemann the award of Citizen at Large at the inaugural Better Beach Awards. This award was given to Lindemann based on his for his prolific and impactful role in growing, branding and leading the Bass Museum of Art for the past 5 years. As the President of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art, George Lindemann has not only been one of the few original members of the Board of Directors, but helped grow the board from 3 members to the current 23 current members of the Board creating a diverse and dynamic group of leaders for the Bass Museum of Art. Lindemann also helped conceptualize the current mission statement of the Bass Museum of Art, “we inspire and educate by exploring the connections between our historical collections and contemporary art”.
Along with the City of Miami Beach, George Lindemann’s generous donations and commitment to education, he created the Lindemann Family Creativity Center at the Bass Museum of Art. The Lindemann Family Creativity Center is the home of the museum’s IDEA@thebass program of art classes and workshops. Developed in conjunction with Stanford University’s acclaimed Institute of Design, IDEA classes employ a method of teaching known as Design Thinking, an open-ended method of problem-solving that allows children to brainstorm, work in teams and engage in creative play. The Creativity Center is also the home of the Art Club for Adults, lectures, film screenings, and teacher training workshops. Additional programming includespre-school art classes, after school and weekend art classes (children ages 6 to 12), and experimental programming designed by the museum’s Stanford Fellow and other experts in the field of arts education.

Congratulations, George Lindemann!

George Lindemann Journal - "Brad Kahlhamer: ‘A Fist Full of Feathers’" @nytimes by Holland Cotter

The George Lindemann Journal

 

Brad Kahlhamer: ‘A Fist Full of Feathers’

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Some of the handmade figures included in “Bowery Nation,” a room-size installation that is part of Brad Kahlhamer’s show “A Fist Full of Feathers,” at the Jack Shainman Gallery.

By HOLLAND COTTER

524 West 24th Street, Chelsea

Through Saturday

The four new paintings in Brad Kahlhamer’s show, his first local solo since 2006, spin out references to contemporary Native American and postpunk urban culture in figures drawn in filament-fine-ballpoint lines, in graffiti-like phrases and in spray-painted stains that look like scorch marks. Basics of Mr. Kahlhamer’s personal history are embedded here: a Native American born in Tucson, he was adopted by a German-American family as an infant and has lived in New York City, near the Bowery, for decades.

The major work, though, is the room-size installation called “Bowery Nation,” an assemblage that incorporates 100 handmade, roughly foot-high figures that the artist has been working on since 1985. Composed primarily of street finds — scraps of fabric and wood, coat hanger wire, pigeon feathers — along with taxidermy pieces, the figures are roughly modeled on Hopi and Zuni katsina dolls, cult objects that embody forceful spirits and are used to convey moral lessons to children.

After keeping the figures to himself for years, Mr. Kahlhamer recently began exhibiting them as a group on a platform put together from studio furniture: a work table, stepladder, sawhorses. The result was meant to suggest a flatbed float of the kind that appears, carrying costumed performers, in powwow parades, though the effect isn’t exactly celebratory. The float is decorated not with Native American “traditional” designs, but with the repeated logo of the Lakota Thrift Mart. Two dozen figures of scrawny, predatory birds hang from wires overhead.

And the sculptures themselves convey mixed messages. No two alike, together they’re as vivaciously inventive as Calder’s “Circus.” But they’re also morbid, death-haunted, a circus risen from the grave.

George Lindemann

George Lindemann

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George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. Jump up ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. Jump up ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. Jump up ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. Jump up ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. Jump up ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
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Name Lindemann, George
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Short description Businessperson
Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
Place of death
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George Lindemann

George Lindemann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. Jump up ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. Jump up ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. Jump up ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. Jump up ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. Jump up ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
Persondata
Name Lindemann, George
Alternative names
Short description Businessperson
Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
Place of death
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George Lindemann

George Lindemann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. Jump up ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. Jump up ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. Jump up ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. Jump up ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. Jump up ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
Persondata
Name Lindemann, George
Alternative names
Short description Businessperson
Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
Place of death
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George Lindemann

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. Jump up ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. Jump up ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. Jump up ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. Jump up ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. Jump up ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
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Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
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George Lindemann

George Lindemann

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George Lindemann
Born George L. Lindemann
1936
New York City
Residence Palm Beach, Florida
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Education B.A. University of Pennsylvania[1]
Occupation businessman
Net worth IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (March 2013)[1]
Spouse(s) Frayda B. Lindemann
Children Adam Lindemann
Sloan Lindemann Barnett
George Lindemann Jr.

George Lindemann is an American businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Union, a pipeline company.[2][3][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-language radio stations.[4][6]

Early life and education[edit]

George Lindemann was born to a Jewish family[7] in 1936 in New York City.[2] He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.[2][3][6]

Career[edit]

From 1962 to 1972, he served as the President of Smith, Miller and Patch, a pharmaceutical company.[3] He sold Permalens, his family company, to Cooper Labs for $75 million in 1971, and founded Vision Cable in 1972.[2][4][5][6] In 1982, he sold it to Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. and his brother for $220 million.[2][4][5][6] Shortly after, he founded a cell phone company called Metro Mobile and later sold it to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion in 1991.[2][4][5][6] He was then the CEO of Southern Union, a pipeline company, which was sold in 2012 to Energy Transfer Equity, LP for approximately $2.0 billion.[2][4][5][6] He also owns 19 Spanish-speaking radio stations.[4][6] He has been the President of Cellular Dynamics and the Managing General Partner of Activated Communications Limited Partnership since 1982.[3] He has been a General Partner of Panhandle Eastern since 1990.[3] He sits on the Board of Directors of HI Europe Limited and on the Advisory Board of Hudson Clean Energy Partners.[3]

Philanthropy and political activities[edit]

He has made donations to Republican candidates, such as Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Ed Royce, Denny Rehberg, and Virginia Foxx.[8] He is a supporter of the Center for Jewish History.[9]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann[2] who serves as Vice-President on the Board of the Metropolitan Opera.[5] They have three children:[2]

  • Adam Marc Lindemann, President of Lindemann Capital, a renowned art collector, a columnist for the NY Observer, and a former champion polo player.[5] In 1989, he married Elizabeth Ashley Graham.[10] Her maternal grandfather is Charles R. Denny, former chairman of the FCC.[10]
  • Sloan Lindemann Barnett sits on the Board of Trustees of the New York University School of Law and runs a natural health products business.[5] She is married to Roger Barnett, CEO of Shaklee, the largest natural nutrition company in the United States. They have three children.[11]
  • George Lindemann Jr., is a former highly ranked equestrian, now well-known art collector, investor, environmental advocate and philanthropist in Miami.[5] He serves as the president of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art.

George Lindemann Sr. lives in Palm Beach, Florida, with further homes on the Upper East Side and in Greenwich, Connecticut.[2][4][5][6] As of September 2011, he is the 736th richest person in the world, and the 220th richest in the United States, with an estimated wealth of US$ 2.1 billion.[2] He owns a 180-foot schooner, Adela, which has won international sailing competitions.[5][6] The Lindemanns are members of the Jewish Federation of Long Beach County.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Forbes: The World's Billionaires: "George Lindemann" March 2013
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Forbes profile
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f BusinessWeek profile
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Robert Trigaux, 'Florida boasts 10 of world's richest', in St. Petersburg Times, February 28, 2003 [1]
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k Peter Latterman and Michael J. De La Merced, 'Natural Gas Bidding War Puts Spotlight on a Billionaire', in The New York Times, June 28, 2011 [2]
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j Wharton Magazine
  7. Jump up ^ Forbes Israel: Jewish Billionaires - Profile of George Lindemann April 14, 2013 (in Hebrew)
  8. Jump up ^ Huffington Post campaign contributions
  9. Jump up ^ Center for Jewish History Bulletin Fall/Winter 2006
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b New York Times: "Elizabeth Graham, Graduate Student, Is Married to Adam Marc Lindemann" October 16, 1989
  11. Jump up ^ New York University Law Alumni of the Month December 2009: Sloan Lindemann Barnett ’93 retrieved May 3, 2013
  12. Jump up ^ Jewish Federation of Long Beach County Honor Roll 2011
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Name Lindemann, George
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Short description Businessperson
Date of birth 1936
Place of birth New York City
Date of death
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George Lindemann Journal "No plans for repeat of Florida's massive python hunt" @miamiherald

George Lindemann

PythonsintheEverglades

The event drew more than 1,500 would-be snake killers from across the United States. News crews arrived from around the world to film the spectacle. And it netted 68 Burmese pythons, the huge non-native constrictors that have challenged alligators for supremacy in the South Florida swamps.

But there are no plans for a repeat of the Python Challenge, the two-month snake-killing contest that took place at the beginning of the year. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission called it a success despite its modest tally because it delivered a mountain of data to scientists and allowed the agency to more sharply focus the future fight against the snake.

But once was enough.

"Our primary goal for the Python Challenge was to raise awareness, and we felt like we reached that goal," said Kristen Sommers, the wildlife agency's Exotic Species Coordination Section Leader.

Everglades National Park last week hosted a meeting of representatives of various state and federal agencies to discuss how to proceed in the fight against the snakes. They assessed various tactics, such as the use of dogs and fitting female snakes with transmitters.

"All of the data is coming back and scientists are looking at it," said Linda Friar, spokeswoman for the park, the center of the infestation. "A number of these techniques work. The big challenge in South Florida is the landscape. They're very difficult to see. The challenge is how you find and remove snakes in this big wilderness that has so many protections. You have 2,400 square miles, and most of it is inaccessible. It's just a very challenging wilderness."

Hunters have never been allowed to go after pythons in Everglades National Park because national parks don't allow hunting. But the park has tried many tactics to eradicate the snakes, which are blamed for taking a growing toll on the park's wildlife, from wading birds and alligators to the rabbits, raccoons and opossums that had once been common sites along the main park road.

"It remains a high priority, and we're concerned," said Friar. "We are seeing less small mammals. We know through necropsies that they eat them, in addition to wading birds."

During the state's Python Challenge, which took place on Everglades lands outside the park, it quickly became clear that the most successful hunters were the ones who had experience catching pythons. So the wildlife agency has begun meeting with hunting groups to train them in the rudiments of finding and killing pythons as they tramp through the woods during hunting seasons that run roughly from August through the middle of April.

"Just because we're not having a Python Challenge, doesn't mean there aren't the opportunities for people to hunt pythons," Sommers said.

It was one such accidental encounter in May that led to the killing of the state's record python, an eighteen-foot, eight-inch monster spotted in some bushes by a man riding an all-terrain vehicle near Florida City. He killed the 128-pound female with a knife, after a long struggle in which the snake wrapped itself around his legs.

The wildlife commission has also established programs to train people who are out in the wild anyway – such as electric company workers and law enforcement officers – how to kill or where to report sightings of the snakes. Since 2010, they have trained 449 people, as well as an additional 1,000 or so in how to detect them.