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| Last night's scene at The Chinese Porcelain Company for an invitational opening night of exhibition of photographs from NYSD by Jeff Hirsch (JH to you dear reader) for sale to benefit the Women’s Committee of the Central Park Conservancy. |
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| Pleasantly warm day for the middle of May and probably the busiest day of the month on the NYSD Calendar and it could seem like the whole town was out and about. Over at the Plaza, Seeds of Peace hosted its annual gala dinner honoring Ambassador Zalay Khalizad, US Ambassador to the UN. Down at the Skylight Studio on Hudson Street, Operation Smile held its 5th Annual Operation Smile Event with co-chair and honorees including Andrew Tisch, Lacey Tisch, Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump, Charlotte Moss and Jennifer Marsico. At Angel Orensanz on Norfolk Street, Performance Space 122 held its Spring Gala with Claire Danes, Stephen Daldry, Jane Friedman, Terry Garr, and featuring live appearances by Jonathan Ames, Blue Man Group, Steve Buscemi, Mimi Goese, Lisa Kron, Cyndi Lauper, David Leslie, Rosie O’Donnell, Johanna Went, plus a special video tribute performance by Antony and The Johnsons. At Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School, NYU Child Study Center presented a Conversation with Kinko’s Founder Paul Orfalea. |
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| Bridget Magee, Donald Trump, Jr., Dr. Bill Magee, Mariah Carey, Shawn McDonald, Vanessa Trump at OPERATION SMILE'S 5th Annual Smile Event After Party. |
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| At the Baryshnikov Arts center on West 37th, they were holding their annual Spring Gala featuring the NY premieres of Jiri Kylian's film "CAR MEN," directed by Boris Paval Conen, and choreographer Mat Ek's "Place," danced by Ana Laguna and Mikhail Baryshnikov.
In The Tent at Lincoln Center Millenniu8m Promise and Malaria held its No More Benefit honoring Raymond G. Chambers, Peter Chernin, Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs and George Soros. The Rainforest Alliance held its 2008 Gala. In the Altman Building, Lydia Hearst and Heatherette Designers Richie Rich and Traver Rains hosted Village Care of New York’s 7th Annual “Tulips and Pansies: The Headdress Affair” Benefit. Down at 24 Fifth Avenue, The Pink Agenda, formerly known as Saving Second Base, an organization of young professional committed to raising money for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation held its Annual Spring Gala. At Cipriani Wall Street, Matt’s Promise held its annual 3rd Annual Benefit Concert. At Cipriani 42nd Street, Gilda’s Club Worldwide held their annual benefit honoring Mort Topfer. Up at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University, Take Dance Comopany presented Contemporary Premieres. At Pop International Galleries on 473 West Broadway, there was an opening exhibition of the photographs of Lawrence Schiller “American in the 1960s and Marilyn Monroe.” At Guastavino’s the Associates Committee of the society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center hosted their annual Spring party Safari at Sunset. All proceeds will benefit a pledge made by the Associates Committee to raise $1.4 million over four years to endow the Clown Care program, a community outreach program of the Big Apple Circus that has been a very important piece of the Center’s Pediatric Department since 1986.
Over at WOWY GALLERY, 352 East 55th Street, there was an exhibition of "Manhattan Insights" -- An Intimate Look At A Neighborhood, the 40th Exhibit of Gilles Berube. A few blocks to the west, Manhattan Theatre Club's Young Patron Program hosted its third and final event of the season in conjunction with Liz Flahive's FROM UP HERE at New York City Center Stage I. And those were just the ones NYSD knew about. So you wonder if New Yorkers ever stay home? Meanwhile we made it to none of them because we had our own event last night at The Chinese Porcelain Company on 58th Street and Park Avenue – an invitational opening night of exhibition of photographs from NYSD by Jeff Hirsch (JH to you dear reader) for sale for the benefit of the Women’s Committee of the Central Park Conservancy. Cocktail hour from 6 to 8 with fabulous cocktails and drinks provided by Uluvka Vodka, we were lucky to see a lot of friends who dropped by for a look (and in many cases, some purchases of the works). In the crowd (and this is all from memory, so there are many names who’ve slipped our recollections several hours later): Phillip Gorrivan, Christina Juarez, Allison Mazolla, Dino Rivero, Harry Stendhal, Michel Witmer, Titia Velenga, Wendy Moonan, Jill Krementz, Mary Hilliard, Jennifer Raab and Michael Goodwin, Irwin Cohen, Richard and Elaine Hirsch, Carol and Mickey Friedman, Jonny Friedman, Mark Bender, Adin Kahn, Eric Williams, Emilia Saint Amand and Fred Krimendahl, Duane Hampton and John Dobkin, Chris Meigher, Alexa Stevenson, Marcia and Georgina Schaeffer, Julie Dannenberg, Liz Smith, the "peripatetic" Christy Ferer, Yanna Avis, Couri Hay, Arnold Scaasi and Parker Ladd. Plus more: Gillian and Sylvester Miniter, Danielle Rossi, Troy Hollar and Katherine Pew, Pilar Rossi, Malcolm Thomson, Christina Davis, Robin Verges, Dennis and Gail Karr, Ellen Sweeney, Peter and Jamee Gregory, Geoffrey Bradfield and Roric Tobin, Bruce Bierman and William Secord, Dottie Herman, Jane Ethe, Ann Pyne, Armene Milliken, Ashley Schiff and Mike Ramos, Pat Patterson, Eleanora and Michael Kennedy, Michele Gerber Klein, Penny Bianchi, Nanette Giordano, John Yunis, Mario Buatta, Sybilla Clark, Susan Gutfreund, Paige Peterson with Sharon and Dr. Jay Levy, Alexandra and Jim Lebenthal. |
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Photographs by Eric Weiss |
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| And more: Mark Langrish, Melissa Bernstein, Bob and Suzanne Cochran, Heather Cohane, David, Rochelle, Jason, and Stefanie Hirsch, Daniel and Carolyn Hirsch, Adam Hirsch, Larry and Marilyn Friedland, Allison and Leonard Stern, Allison Rockefeller, Susan Bell, Sarah Rosenthal, Michael Adams, Bonnie Evans, Mark Gilbertson, Bonnie and Steve Stern, Mitchell and Sharon Baron, Ann Heitner, Jordana Zizmor, Debbie Bancroft with John Schneider, Barbara de Portago, Connie Spahn, Harriet Weintraub, Lars Nillson, Tamara and Randall Winn, Marcie Pantzer, Marjorie Reed Gordon, Wilbur and Hilary Ross, Iris Apfel, Barbara Dixon, Somers Farkas, Susan Magrino, Carol Bell, Judy Agisim, Cricket Burns, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kobrin, Nelson Blitz, Chris Walling, Nina and John Richter, Lesley Hauge, Sian Ballen, Dan Seitz, Charlie Burger, Charlie Miller, Dan Martin. And before I forget: George and Marianna Kaufman, Ann Rapp, Hunt Slonem, Joy Ingham, Charlotte Ford, Richard and Diana Feldman, Sassy Johnson, Mary Milton, Norma Dana, Mai Hallingby Harrison, Stephanie Stokes, Ki Hackney and Carl Hribar, Bob Schulenberg, Tina Sloan McPherson, Cheri Kaufman, Terri Coopersmith, Pat Patterson, Victoria Wyman, Alistair and Blair Clarke, Nina Griscom and Leonel Piraino, Nancy and Harold Baker, Alexis Clarke, Ellen Graham, Mimi Strong, Montgomery Blair Sibley, John Punnett, Jesse and Karen Kornbluth with Helen, Leslie Stevens, Clementine Crawford, Chappy and Melissa Morris, Fred and Michele Oka Doner, Jeanne and Herb Siegel, Jeanne Lawrence, Roberta Sanderman, Lawrence Jurden, Arnold and Ann Jurdem, Annette Tapert, Jake Bright, Justin Karr, Roy Kean, Connie Spahn, our hosts Pierre Durand and Conor Mahoney of The Chinese Porcelain Company, and their associate Edith Dicconson, and now the memory card is my head has run clear outta names for the moment; and your eyes have probably got bleary if you’re still with us. The things you learn: Barbara de Portago, on seeing the shot of the ducks sitting on the rocks in the Central Park Pond, exclaimed “That’s my duck!” Not knowing what she was talking about, she further explained that whenever she visits the park, she goes to the pond and see the duck who always comes up to her and she feeds it. He knows her! And furthermore, he is the only WHITE duck in the park, at least the only white one she has ever seen. “He’s a very old duck,” she said. We were a little nervous about the reception before the fact, for it was the first time JH’s photographs have been exhibited. However, it turned out very well and many were sold (they were printed in series of ten), all for the benefit of the Park that is the heart of New York, the destination of respite, recreation, beauty and pleasure of millions of New Yorkers and our millions of visiting friends. The photographs are on exhibition at The Chinese Porcelain Company through Monday, May 19th. They were printed in series of ten. As beautiful as they are on this page, they are even more extraordinary to behold in their enlarged sizes. If you can't make it down to The Chinese Porcelain Company to see in person, you can always order by phone and pay by credit card. All proceeds of the sale are being donated to the Women's Committee of the Central Park Conservancy. The Chinese Porcelain Company 475 Park Avenue at 58th Street 212-838-0273 |
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| 35. The Lake, Central Park, I, 2004. Digital Print, 26 ¾ x 33 ½ inches. | 3. City Hall Park, 2004. Digital Print. 26 ¾ x 33 ½ inches. |
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| 20. Times Square, II, 2006 . Digital Print. 34 ¾ x 43 ¾ inches. | 1. Times Square, I, 2006. Digital Print. 44 x 60 ¾ inches. |
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| 27. Cornelia Street, 2006. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. | 18. East Village, 2006. Digital Print. 30 7/8 x 38 7/8 inches. |
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| 14. West 11th, 2006. Digital Print. 34 ¾ x 43 ¾ inches. | 21. Empire State, IV, 2004. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. |
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| 15. Rooftop, I, 2004. Digital Print. 30 7/8 x 38 7/8 inches. | 19. Met Life, 2006. Digital Print. 34 ¾ x 43 ¾ inches. |
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| 10. Halloween, 2006, Digital Print, 26 ¾ x 33 ½ inches. | 9. July 4th, 2004. Digital Print. 26 ¾ x 33 ½ inches. |
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| 33. Black Squirrel, Central Park, 2006. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. | 23. Empire State, V, 2004. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. |
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| 4. Central Park, Fall, I, 2008. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. | 5. Central Park, Fall, II, 2008. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. |
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| 17. Façade, I, 2007. Digital Print. 30 7/8 x 38 7/8 inches. | 13. Lower Manhattan, I, 2008. Digital Print. 34 ¾ x 43 ¾ inches. |
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| 31. FDR Drive, 2004. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. | 29. Hudson River, I, 2008. Digital Print. 38 x 48 inches. |
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| 37. Umbrella, Central Park, 2008. Digital Print. 26 ¾ x 33 ½ inches. | 2. Hats, Central Park, 2008. Digital Print. 24 7/8 x 31 inches. |
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| 25. 570 Lexington, 2003. Digital Print. 30 ¾ x 22 7/8 inches. | 26. 12th and Fifth, 2008. Digital Print. 44 x 35 inches. | 24. Bethesda Terrace, 2007. Digital Print. 33 ½ x 26 ¾ inches. |
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| 39. Madison Square Park, 2008. Digital Print. 26 ¾ x 33 ½ inches. | 12. Empire State, II, 2008. Digital Print. 43 4/8 x 34 7/8 inches. |
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| 32. The Gates, Central Park, 2005. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. | 22. Curbside, 2007. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. |
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| 28. Subway, 2007. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. | 6. Vendor, 2008. Digital Print. 34 ¾ x 43 ¾ inches. |
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| 16. Fire Lane, 2004. Digital Print. 30 7/8 x 38 7/8 inches. | 11. Rooftop, 2007. Digital Print. 26 ¾ x 33 ½ inches. |
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| 8. Second Floor, 2007. Digital Print. 26 ¾ x 33 ½ inches. | 38. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, 2008. Digital Print. 44 x 60 ¾ inches. |
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| 34. Empire State, I , 2007. Digital Print. 34 ¾ x 43 ¾ inches. | 7. Seventh Avenue, 2006. Digital Print. 34 ¾ x 43 ¾ inches. |
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| 30. Empire State, III, 2008. Digital Print. 21 ¾ x 26 5/8 inches. | 36. The Lake, Central Park, II 2008. Digital Print. 26 ¾ x 33 ½ inches. |
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