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 Autumn in the Park
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Dinner under the tent at the Central Park Conservancy's Autumn in the Park. |
| Last Thursday night, in a big tent set up next to the old Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park, the Central Park Conservancy held a fund-raising dinner dance, Autumn in the Park. The occasion was the first of its kind for the Conservancy which at this time of year usually staged a Halloween costume party. So it's out with the old and in with the older. People loved it. The décor was provided by Bronson van Wyck and it was sensationally autumnal, inside and out (the tent had a transparent roof). They raised over a million dollars for the maintenance of the Park and the Starlite Orchestra had just about everyone in the tent on the dance floor boogeying the night away. Nice night it was too. |
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Michael and Eleonora Kennedy |
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Diana DiMenna and Suzanne Johnson |
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Muffy Miller and Anne Harrison |
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Gillian Miniter, Suzanne Johnson, and Fiona Rudin |
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Debbie Bancroft |
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Gillian Miniter, Sylvester Miniter, and Suzanne Johnson |
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Deborah Roberts and Star Jones |
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Gayle Perkins Atkins and William Zeckendorf |
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Henry Stern and Douglas Blonsky |
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Woody Johnson and Ian Snow |
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Fred Schuman and Coco Kopelman |
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Alexandra Lebenthal |
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Stephen Henderson |
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Michelle and Andy Smith |
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David Foley, Victoria Foley, and Thomas L. Kempner Jr. |
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Leslie Craige, Suzie Aijala, and Laura Wolff |
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Jason and Julie Miller |
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Sharon Handler and Ambassador John Loeb Jr. |
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Marilyn Calderwood and Caroline MacKenzie |
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Allison and George Brokaw |
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Mary Snow, Bettina Zilkha, Diana DiMenna, and Suzanne Johnson |
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Dodge Olmsted and Caroline MacKenzie |
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James Scott and Barbara Scott |
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Ronaldo Hoffman and Priscilla Hoffman |
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Saha Hammari and Marianne Tu |
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Jennifer Rich and Ambassador John Loeb Jr. |
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Elyse Newhouse and Andy Oshrin |
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Sandy Harris and Darren Henault |
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Erisa Sekiya |
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Rory Hermlee and Alexis Clark |
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Jeff and Patsy Tarr |
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Sylvester Miniter, Gillian Miniter, Douglas Blonsky, and Terri Coppersmith |
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Vicki Foley and Alexia Hamm Ryan |
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Stacy and Keith Miller |
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Bill Martini and Terri Coppersmith |
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Joe and Caroline Reece |
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Anne Harrison and Robert Steel |
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Bettina Zilkha and Michael Newhouse |
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Alexandra Gildin and Luke Sacca |
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R. Couri Hay and Janna Bullock |
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Michael Grobstein and Nadine Grobstein |
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Pamela Ryckman and Suzanne Gerard Foote |
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Judy Angelo, Rebecca Dana, and Jessie Angelo |
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Michael Lorig and Caroline Lorig |
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Stephanie Schuman, George Clairmont, Ann Clairmont, and Coco Kopelman |
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Elyse Newhouse and Michael Newhouse |
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Karen Altamirano and Javier Molto |
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Steve Ifshin and Billie Lim |
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George Hambrech and Andrea Fahnestock |
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Wendy Soong |
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Judy Angelo, Rebecca Dana, and Jessie Angelo |
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Marilyn Calderwood and Dodge Olmsted |
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Terri Polk, Peter Deneufville, and Valerie Ohrstrom |
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Donald Smith and Viola |
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Leni May, Peter May, Michael Targoff, and Sharzad Targoff |
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Patricia Shiah and Tom Shiah |
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John Gilmore and Yvette Gilmore |
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Susan Calhoun and Eleonora Kennedy |
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Richard Burke, Jeanne Keating, and Bill Martini |
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Valerie Ohrstrom and Claire Gudefin |
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Castia Maria celebrated its 2011 Casita Fiesta! 2011 a week ago Tuesday night in the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza. They honored Robero Cavall, Julio Larraz, Luis Ubinas, and Tiqui Atencio. Fiesta! Dinner Chairs were Jacqueline Weld Drake, Aileen Mehle, and H.R.H. Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia.
Casita Maria's mission is to empower youth and their families by creating a culture of learning through high quality social, cultural, and educational opportunities. Casita Maria's goals are to provide youth with the tools they need to achieve academically, empower youth to become artists and creative problem solvers, and provide the organization's families with opportunities to explore their community, the visual, and performing arts. The organization's current programs are focused on arts and education, and they include a wide range of in-school and after-school programs, a community referral center, and special summer camps and internships. |
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| Ondine de Rothschild with Paul and Trudy Cejas |
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| Tony Signore, Violaine Bernbach, and Christopher Asplundh |
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| Jean Shafiroff |
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| Noreen Buckfire and Steven Stolman |
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| Gigi Vittadini and Violaine Bernbach |
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| Edgar Batista and Mary McFadden |
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| Daisy Soros and Hilaire O’Malley |
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| Esther Herrero, Elizabeth Stribling, and Guy Robinson |
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| Luis Ubinas |
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| Steven and Christine Hearst Schwarzman |
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| Rafa Marquez and Mamen Sanchez Perez |
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| Angel Sanchez, Jacqueline Weld Drake, Roberto Redondo, and Estefania Lacayo |
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| Donald Tober and John Bernbach |
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| Maximillian and Alicia Jahn |
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| John Mashek and Amanda Haynes Dale |
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| Yanna Avis and Prince Dimitri of Yugolasvia |
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| Jamie Figg and Margo Langenberg |
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| Ann Rapp and Hunt Slonem |
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| Geoffrey Bradfield, Chiu Ti Jansen, and Edmundo Huerta |
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| Jamee and Peter Gregory |
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| Violy McCausland Seve |
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| Jacqueline Weld Drake and Mikhail Baryshnikov |
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| Simon and Tina Beriro |
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| Dan and Estrellita Brodsky with Roberto Pumarejo |
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| Alessandro and Fe Fendi |
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| Charles and Janice Cecil |
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| Michelle Harper and Vanessa Bronfman |
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| Adriana Abascal and Chris Brown |
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| Adrienne and Gianiuigi Vittadini |
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| Kalliope Karella, and Fabrizio and Enrica Arengi Bentivoglio |
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| Michele Gerber Klein and Guest |
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| Jackie Weld Drake and Rodman Drake |
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| Ellery and Marjorie Gordon |
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| Lady Liliana Cavendish and Edmundo Huerta |
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| Roberto Camacho, Fernando Botero, and Sophia Vari |
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| Robert Verdi and Mario Buatta |
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| Fe Fendi and Steve Schwarzman |
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| Marcia Levine and Mikhail Baryshnikov |
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Girls Learn International held its Educate a Girl, Empower a Woman Luncheon at the University Club last Monday November 7, 2011. GLI is a non-profit service learning initiative designed to combat the global crisis in girls' education by giving American students the skills, confidence, and knowledge to help develop solutions and advocate for sustainable social change. Student leaders and faculty advisors use the GLI program to learn about girls' human rights and the obstacles girls face around the world in attending school.
GLI pairs middle and high school Chapters in the US with Partner Schools in countries where girls still lag behind boys in school attendance and are discouraged or precluded from completing their educations. Through communications and student exchange projects, Chapters and Partner Schools learn about each other and share their ideas about human rights, their dreams and their hopes for their futures. Each year, GLI Chapters raise money for their Partner Schools to support girls' education projects. |
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| Tara Liddle, Perri Peltz, Diane Rosen, and Lisa Alter. |
| Sarah Baird, Tara Liddle, and Hollis Forbes. |
DeeDee Ricks, Gregory Generet, and Tamara Tunie. |
| DeeDee Ricks and Catherine Carey. |
| GLI Staff and Student Ambassadors. |
Last Thursday night at the Guggenheim, 430 dinner guests along with more than 800 joining in the after-party, attended the 2011 Guggenheim International Gala. The museum celebrated the new exhibition Maurizio Cattelan: All in which 128 of the artist's work are suspended from the center of the Guggenheim's rotunda.
If you're wondering how they pulled that off, dinner was served on tables carefully balanced on white carpeted platforms on the ramps. |
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The scene at the Guggenheim |
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Dinner on the museum ramps |
A gift to all Gala guests was PonyTailGirl Matchbox, a commissioned work by artist Mika Rottenberg, who is represented in the museum's collection and also joined in the festivities to fête Maurizio at the museum's most prominent annual benefit.
At 9:30 pm doors opened for after with MGMT indie rock band transforming the Guggenheim's rotunda into performance venue with LED lighting installed on ramps. |
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Maurizio Cattelan with MGMT |
Guests included Richard Armstrong, Maria Baibakova, Maurizio Cattelan, Dan Colen, Will Cotton, Brian Eno, David and Danielle Ganek, Roni Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Nate Lowman, William and Phyllis Mack, Julie Mehretu, MGMT, Amy and John Phelan, Rob Pruitt, Cynthia Rowley and Bill Powers, Mark Ronson, Lauren and Andreas Santo Domingo, Nancy Spector, Jennifer Stockman, and Lawrence Weiner, among others.
An auction of contemporary art works earlier in the week held with Phillips DePury & Company raised $2,682,000 for the museum as part of the 2011 Guggenheim International Gala. |
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Barbara Gladstone and Francesco Bonami |
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Bill Mack, Phyllis Mack, and Richard Armstrong, Director of the Guggenheim Foundation and Museum |
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Ben Goldwasser and Katharine O'Brien |
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Amanda Fuhrman and Amy Phelan |
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Beth Swofford |
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Julie Mehretu and Mickalene Thomas |
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Jeff Koons and Dustin Yellin |
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Katherine Brinson and Carolyn Wade |
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Janis Cecil |
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Isabella Rayburn, Juanita Sabadini, and Paola Schulhof |
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Rob Pruitt |
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Richard Cohen and Julie Hayek |
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Maurizio Cattelan |
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Sarah Morris and Lawrence Weiner |
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Seam Bluechel and Mika Rottenberg |
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Nancy Spector, Maurizio Cattelan, and Jennifer Stockman |
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Simon and Micaela de Pury |
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| PatrickMcMullan.com (Autumn in the Park); Annie Watt (Casita Maria); Roger Kisby & Will Ragozzino, Billy Farrell (Gugg).
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