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Adam Rubin

Portrait of Adam Rubin
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Adam Rubin is an American children's book author whose titles include Dragons Love Tacos. He also designs puzzles, optical illusions and magic tricks, and is a partner in Art of Play, a puzzle, game and magic retailer, where he was named director of puzzles and games in 2016.

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What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Adam Rubin on Arts and Culture. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Adam Rubin

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Adam Rubin

Role at the time: Co-owner of Art of Play, in an interview with New York magazine's Curbed

Challenged the characterization

Response to this claim

An Art of Play employee looked at Kelly Clarkson as if she could not afford the item she wanted and offered to find her something comparable.

“nothing happened in this shop to justify her scolding our shopkeeper on the way out”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Security footage released from Kelly Clarkson's alleged incident that sparked store feud · The National News DeskFull article
Why we used this label

The case centers on how Art of Play's staff treated Clarkson. Rubin says nothing happened in the shop to justify her scolding of the shopkeeper, disputing her description of the visit, so we labeled it a challenge to her characterization.

Read statementKelly Clarkson says a Brooklyn shop treated her as if she couldn't afford a $15,000 automaton; Art of Play says it was not for sale

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