Exhibitions, screenings, and book parties

CVZ Contemporary's "Theory of Wants" by Ohad Maiman at Milk Gallery.

CVZ Contemporary and Milk Gallery Project held a book launch and a show for New York based photographer/philosopher Ohad Maiman. Mr. Maiman who graduated from Columbia University, traveled the Far East and South America extensively after serving three years in the Special Forces. This artist's book collects his compelling, immediate photographs of people around the world with his own philosophical statements and questions.

Jake Hoffman

Eytan Rockaway and Yael Rechter

Homero Isaac de Beltran

Fabian Taghdiri, Allison Strasenburgh, and Ty Kuppig

Vinnie Potestivo, Nicole Basabe, and Fabian Basabe

Zelda Kaplan and Ohad Maiman

Charlotte Chapman, Lady Liliana Cavendish, and Georgina Cavendish

Christine Marchuska and Victor Medina-San Andres

Poet and Nicole Trunfio

Carrie Curneen, Eytan Rockaway, and Julia Birkinshaw

Jeff Gray and Demetria White

Addison O'Dea

Meghan Petersen and Ramsey de Give

Alina Slonim

Jennifer Birn and Kimberly Birn

Lenka Dayrit, Eliza Nguyen, and Irena Simonova

Miriam Maiman and Ohad Maiman

Carlo Zeitschel, Eytan Rockaway, and Ohad Maiman

Victor Medina-San Andres, Christine Marchuska, and Russ Terlecki

Irena Simonova and Lenka Dayrit

Lisa Yom, Clare Walker, and Sophie Langlois

Serena Tufo and Jules Kirby

Richard Mueller and Sep Alavi

Jasper Klein

Slavalava Wiszy and Wiszy Slavalava

Lizzie Shell and Marissa Miller

Talia Eisenberg and Christina Albina

Aarti Mann and Nicole Raef

The Tribeca Cinema Series, hosted by Jane Rosenthal, Beth Ostrosky Stern and Julia Szabo who attended along with her dawgs, had a special screening of “Marley and Me.” Some left their pooches at home. Others don’t have a pooch.

Hoda Kotb

Douglas Hannant and Ava

Abigail Breslin

Cindy Adams brought her two, Jazzy and Juicy. Clyde, the Labrador who played Marley also attended. Only in New York, kids, only in New York.

Alison Beckrer and Dignan

Andrew Kaplan and Julia Szabo

Beth Ostrosky and Bianca

Ann Lembeck, Daphne, and Denis Leary

Cindy Adams with Juicy and Jazzy

Ellen Ward, Oliver, and Chuck Scarborough

Richard Kind

Craig Hatkoff, Buddy, and Jane Rosenthal

Patricia Duff

Last Wednesday night in New York, the Ralph Lauren store in Soho, David Lauren hosted a book party for rock photographer Mark Seliger’s “The Music Book,” which is a collection of his photographs. Many were taken when he was working at Rolling Stone. Tom Wolfe, who wrote the foreward to the book, was also on hand.

Andres Levine and Tom Riley

Bob Gruen and Mark Seliger

Jules Kirby and Paul Johnson-Calderone

Irina Alexander

Ali Lapinsky and Chrissy Hamway

Anshana Arora

Bucu Bimantes

David Lauren, Tom Wolfe, and Mark Seliger

Lonneke Engel, Pierce Taylor, and Mallory June

Susan Jeffrey and Paul Licalsi

Sarah Gore-Reeves and Burcu Bimantes

Saadi Ghaton and Courtney Carrera

Susan Jeffrey, Paul Licalsi, and Tom Wolfe

Carter Cramer and Leah Bourne

Last week 2008 Birthright Israel Foundation held its annual Gala at The Pierre. The dinner honored Susie Gelman, the first chair of the Birthright Israel Foundation, who was recently installed as the president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and has leadership roles in a number of other organizations including the Nesiya Institute and the United Jewish Endowment Fund amongst others.

Michael Gelman, Susie Gelman, Bonnie Roche Bronfman, and Gala Chair Charles R. Bronfman

Susie Gelman and Michael Steinhardt

Laurie Tisch with her daughter Carolyn Sussman

Dorothy Tananbaum and Laurie Tisch

Charles R. Bronfman, Susie Gelman, and Birthright Israel Foundation Chair Dan Och

Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gabriella Shalev and Edgar M. Bronfman

Charles R. Bronfman and Consul General of Israel in New York Ambassador Asaf Shariv

Susie Gelman and Edgar M. Bronfman

Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com; Melanie Einzig (Birthright).

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