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| Aspen Art Museum’s annual artCRUSH. |
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| artCRUSH is the Aspen Art Museum’s annual gala series which includes wineCRUSH, previewCRUSH, artCRUSH gala, and afterpartyCRUSH. These events were held August 5-7, 2009. The artCRUSH gala took place on August 7, 2009 and featured the 2009 Aspen Award for Art presentation to internationally renowned American artist Fred Tomaselli, who was honored with the The 2009 annual Aspen Award for Art award by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. The festivities continued with a seated dinner, followed by a live auction of one-of-a-kind works hosted by Sotheby’s auctioneer Tobias Meyer, raising more than $375,000. Following artCRUSH, guests traveled to Belly Up Aspen, the area’s premier live music venue to dance the night away with world famous Prince tribute band Purple Reign. The list of attendees below including Lance Armstrong is specific to artCRUSH gala. |
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| The Phelan Residence in Aspen. |
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| Views from the house. |
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| A look inside ... |
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| The following are the first two parties, wineCrush and previewCRUSH. The wineCRUSH reception at the Caribou Club (Master Sommelier: Jay Fletcher, Southern Wine and Spirits’ Executive Director), drew major arts patrons, gallerists, artists, and wine connoisseurs came from across the country and internationally. |
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| Domenico De Sole, Nancy Magoon, Fred Tomaselli, Eleanor De Sole, Anthony Grant, Frances Dittmer, and Bob Magoon |
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| Donald Rubell, Mera Rubell, Marianne Boesky, Michelle Rubell, and Rochelle Lehmann |
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| Guests included: New York collectors Jill and Jay Bernstein, Glenn Fuhrman and Andrea Steck, Eddie Lampert, and Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond J. Learsy; Los Angeles collectors and arts patrons include: Bill and Maria Bell, and Bob and Linda Gersh; Miami collectors Don and Mera Rubell, Jason and Michelle Rubell, and Dennis and Debra Scholl; Chicago collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson; Aspen collectors Toni and Danny Holtz, Nancy and Bob Magoon, Frances Dittmer, and Courtney and Karen Lord; Connecticut collectors Arthur and Pamela Sanders, and David and Jennifer Stockman; Dallas Patrons Allen and Kelli Questrom and Paul and Gayle Stoffel; Gallerists included John Berggruen, James and Jane Cohan, Richard Edwards, Ronnie and Jan Greenberg, and Perry Rubenstein; artists included include Fred Tomaselli, Jason Middlebrook, and Mike Starn with his wife, Creative Time Director Ann Pasternak. |
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| Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [1]
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