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 The Art of Giving
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El Museo's 15th Annual Gala. |
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Last Thursday night at Cipriani 42nd Street, El Museo held its annual gala and honored the distinguished author Mario Vargas Llosa. This was the 15th annual gala which is celebrated in the Latin tradition with a Quinceanera. Guests were instructed to dress in white or black with long gloves and tiaras options for the ladies. Among those attending included Carolina Herrera, Francisco Costa, Christian Cota, Narciso, Rodriguez, Angel Sanchez, Clarissa Brodsky, Agnes Gund, Susan Gutfreund, Ruben and Isabel Toledo. The reigning Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teenage America also made a special appearance.
The El Museo Gala is New York’s most prestigious night of philanthropy for the Latin and Latino community. They have also turned it into one of the most glamorous and fun parties of all New York galas. |
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Trudy Cejas and Ambassador Paul L. Cejas |
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Jose and Carmen Unanue |
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Angel Collado-Schwarz and Tony Bechara |
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Christine Cachot, Christina Roig Morris, and Carmen Slade |
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Christopher Mason |
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Christine Cachot, Gustavo Arango, and Sandra Ripert |
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Miss Teen USA Hilary Cruz, Yaz Hernandez, and Miss USA Crystle Stewart |
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David Granoff and Joan Jedell |
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Fabiola Beracasa and Carlos Mota |
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George Kaufman |
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Joel Ehrenkrantz |
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Juan Carlos Arcila-Duque and Agatha Ruiz de la Prada |
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Ambassador John Loeb and Sharon Handler |
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Maria Cornejo and Narciso Rodriguez |
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Jana Pasquel and Christian Cota |
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Sandra Sanches |
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Sylvana Soto-Ward |
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Vilma Brennan |
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Julian and Tasha Zugazagoitia |
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Pablo and Carolina Cejas |
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Yolanda Santos and Julian Zugazagoitia |
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Francisco Costa with Isabel and Ruben Toledo |
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Alexis Clarke and Ruben Toledo |
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Paul Cavaco and Candy Pratts Price |
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Jorge Plasencia, Nicole Miller, Romero Britto, and Frances Sevilla-Sacasa |
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Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and Dr. Mario Vargas Llosa |
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Francisco Costa and Dora Beatriz Cortes Stoudemire |
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Patricia Llosa, Tony Bechara, Anna Remos, and Carlos Picon |
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Luisana Mendoza |
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Sabina Forbes |
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James Slattery, Bud Nolan, Carolina Dorson, Cameron O'Mara, and Yasmine Nemazee |
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Miss USA Crystle Stewart, Richard Turley, and Gillian Miniter |
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Sarah Wolfe and Whitney Wolfe |
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Children for Children held its Eighth Annual Benefit, “The Art of Giving” last Wednesday night at Christie’s. There was a Benefit Dinner for sponsors complete with a Live Auction.
The evening’s honorees who were Sherrie Rollins Westin, of Sesame Workshop and her husband David Westin, of ABC News. George Stephanopoulos presented the awards. Cynthia McFadden of ABC’s Nightline was emcee.
Event chairs were Richard I. Beattie, Andrea and Tom Bernstein, Blair Husain, Kathy Lacey and Jim Hoge, Leora and Daniel Rosenberg, and Joe Versace.
Connoisseur Sponsors were: ABC News, Citi - MacAndrews & Forbes, News Corporation and UnitedHealthcare. CFC’s Champions were: Anonymous, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Laura and Robert Sillerman.
Benefactors: Jill Braufman and Daniel Nir, Jan and Lloyd Constantine, Joan Ganz Cooney and Peter G. Peterson, Catherine Croley, Fisher Price, Karen Finerman and Lawrence Golub, Kate and Adam Goodman – Trudy and Robert Gottesman, J.L. Berkowitz & Co. LLC, Leah Keith and Dan Cohen, Elena and Tory Kiam, Merrill Lynch, Perry Capital LLC, Reader’s Digest, Maureen White and Steven Rattner, Sesame Workshop, Sherrie and David Westin. |
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Karenna Gore Schiff |
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Cynthia McFadden |
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Ralph Macchio |
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Maggie Jones and Silda Wall |
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Steve Rattner |
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Silda Wall and Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta |
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Daquan Daly and Maggie Jones |
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Karenna Gore Schiff, Silda Wall, Joel Klein, and David Westin |
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Maurice DuBois, Andrea DuBois, Alexis Clark, and Jason Wright |
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George Stephanopoulos |
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Deborah Roberts and Al Roker |
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Karenna Gore Schiff, Silda Wall, David Westin, and Sherrie Rollins Westin |
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Chris Cuomo and Cristina Greeven Cuomo |
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Suzanne and Tom Murphy |
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Maggie Jones and Lydie Fenet |
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Also last Wednesday night at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center there was a book party for photographer Nancy Ellison and her wonderful new photographic book “A Classic Style: The Splendor of American Ballet Theater.”
The book depicts such ballet classics as La Bayadere, Othello, The Sleeping Beauty, Manon, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, and Giselle. It captures the virtuosity of its company including Angel Corella, Nina Ananiashvili, Alessandra Ferri, Julio Bocca, and Ethan Stiefel. ABT’s artistic director Kevin McKenzie has written the foreward. |
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Joseph Volpe, Kevin Mckenzie, Nancy Ellison, and Bill Rollnick |
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Paloma Herrera and Fernando Aldazabal |
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Barbara Myers and Kara Shibiya |
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Flavio Salazar, Stuart Saltzman, and Fernando Aldazabal |
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Jim Trager, Nina Ananiashvili, and Mary Mylenki |
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Ellen Cahill and Leah Cohen |
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John Banta and Amy Brown |
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Louisa Benton and Paul Cahill |
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Kara Shibiya and Jillian Barsalou |
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Mary Mylenki and Jim Trager |
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Jody and Tom King |
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Mary Singer and Eric Jorgensen |
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Gay Watkins and Nancy Brown |
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Mimi Bradley, Kathy Lu, and Kara Shibiya |
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Missy Gibbs, Rachel Moore, and Matei Varga |
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Madeline Oden and David Lansky |
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Helen Cantu and Kristy Duarte |
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Rachael Kirwin, Allen Feuer, and Peter Lyden |
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| Photographs by ©PatrickMcMullan.com |
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