Thursday, February 24, 2011

New seasons to celebrate

A performance by Mai Ueda at Freight + Volume gallery in Chelsea.

This past Tuesday night in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum (known locally as LACMA) was the site of a party hosted by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter in honor of LACMA trustee Wendy Stark Morrissey (who is the Los Angeles editor to VF) at the museum’s new restaurant and bar. The restaurant is named Ray’s, after Ray Stark, Wendy’s father and the late film producer known for such works as Funny Girl and Steel Magnolias.


	Graydon Carter, Wendy Stark Morrissey, and Terry Semel

	Anne Kreamer, Kurt Andersen, and Arianna Huffington

Ray Stark was a LACMA Trustee, as is his daughter who currently sits on the board. Executive Chef Kris Morningstar, who was most recently Executive Chef at District and Mercantile, and prior to that worked at such top L.A. establishments as AOC, Patina, and Blue Velvet, presided over the kitchen. The restaurant and bar names honor gifts to LACMA’s Transformation campaign from The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, through the generosity of museum trustee Wendy Stark Morrissey. The bar is aptly titled the Stark Bar.

Among those attending were, of course, LACMA Director Michael Govan and his wife Katherine Ross as well as Suzanne Saperstein who donated generously towards the acquisition of the Kamer/Ruf costume collection (currently on view in the Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915), a transformative addition to LACMA’s permanent collection.

Also: Ed Ruscha, the internationally renowned L.A. artist was there as was Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Betsy Bloomingdale, Arianna Huffington, Peter and Jamee Gregory, Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel, Mamie Gummer and Ben Walker, Michael and Jane Eisner, Irwin and Margo Winkler, Julian Sands and Evgenia Citkowitz, Selim Zilkha and Mary Hayley, Irena Medavoy, Kurt Andersen and Anne Kreamer, and of course, Graydon Carter and his wife, Anna Scott Carter.

Ray’s provided the food which included ahi tuna with jardinière olive salad, crispy confit potatoes with local goat cheese and chives, sweet peppers stuffed with chorizo and almond sauce, cannellini beans with wilted beets greens, pickled fresnos and local olive oil on house bread, mushroom, sage truffle cheese flatbread, etc. The food was fabulous!

Brie Larson and Sarah Ramos

Whitney Able and Azita Ghanizada

Jacqueline Bisset and Darren Ramirez

Victoria Brynner, Laura Cunningham, and Fred Jones

Joan Collins and Percy Gibson

Amy Ephron, Diane von Furstenberg, and Alana Stewart

Wendy Stark Morrissey and Allison Gorsuch

Fiona Lewis, Alex Hitz and Marin Hopper

A. Scott Berg

Alan Finklestein and Angela Janklow

Mitch Glazer

Kris Morningstar, Greg Wiele, Wendy Stark Morrissey, Joachim Splichal, and Betsy Bloomingdale

Eric Charbonneau and Erica Mueller

Lynn Collins

Lisa Eisner and Krista Smith

Barry Diller

Andrea Aberegg

Andrew Saffir, Katherine Ross, Daniel Benedict, and Ari Graynor

Heather Wilson

Michael Govan and Lynda Resnick

Barry Frediani and Wanda McDaniel

Angela Janklow and Jeff Stein

Stavros Merjos and Alan Finklestein

Tim O'Shea and Barbara Pflaumer

Ben Walker and Mamie Gummer

Eva Chow and Cynthia Yorkin

Colleen Camp and Punch Hutton

Brian Grazer and Carly Craig

Veronique Peck, Tony Peck, and Paula Rice

Katherine Ross and Anna Carter

Dasha Zhukova

Harry and Florence Sloan

Jamie McCourt

Arnold Kopelson, Alan Hamel, and Suzanne Somers

Jacqueline Bisset and Margo Winkler

Irena Medavoy

Susan and Jerry Weintraub

Julian Sands

Ed and Danna Ruscha

Stephanie Barron and Melody Kanschat

Nick Berggruen and Arianna Huffington

Dani Janssen and Lynda Resnick

Devaughn Nixon and Lorenzo Eduardo

Marc Mani and Suzanne Saperstein

John Burnham, Michael Eisner, and Jane Eisner

Jamee Gregory, Peter Gregory, and Wendy Goldberg

Marc and Jane Nathanson

Tessa Thompson and Jesse Nolan

Matt Ullian and David Foxley

The Paul Taylor Dance Company opened its new season on Tuesday night with a gala performance at City Center, followed by a dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street.

The dinner scene

A table setting

Eran Bugge, Robert Kleinendorst, James Samson, Amy Fleet

Eran Bugge, Robert Kleinendorst, James Samson, and Amy Fleet

Betsy Whitters and Norton Belknap

Paul Taylor Dancers

Denise Hurlin Roberts and Damian Woetzel

Michael Novak, Eileen Roehl, Michael Apuzzo

Michael Novak, Eileen Roehl, and Michael Apuzzo

Nicholas Gulde, Henry Butler, Melinda Krasting, Michael Sottile

Nicholas Gulde, Henry Butler, Melinda Krasting, and Michael Sottile

Richard Feldman and Judy Kinberg

Judith Selkowitz and Betsy Whitters

Mary Ann Beyington, Rosario Perez, Larry McAffrey, Mary McAffrey

Mary Ann Beyington, Rosario Perez, and Larry and Mary McAffrey

Maryann Kinkead and Jordan Kinkead

Ray Bragar and Robin Hertz

Roberta and Michael Cook

Eileen Robert and Charles Curkin

Sean Mahoney, Amy Young, Jody Arnhold, Michelle Fleet, Michael Trusnovec

Sean Mahoney, Amy Young, Jody Arnhold, Michelle Fleet, and Michael Trusnovec

Maryann Kinkead and Frank Ellsworth

Barbara Kowalski and Michael Kowalski

Bjarne Rieber and Yvonne Rieber

Beverly D'Anne and Guy Mognaz

Ariane Reinhart, Lisa Arbisser, Carolyn Adams, Joan Bowman, Yvonne Rieber

Ariane Reinhart, Lisa Arbisser, Carolyn Adams, Joan Bowman, and Yvonne Rieber

Ken Garen and Christine Sisley

John and RoAnnCostin

Parissa Khobdeh and Holden Kellerhals

David Nadler and Bonnie Pfeifer Evans

Palencia Turner, Kirstin Ellsworth, Ken Garen, Christine Sisley

Palencia Turner, Kirstin Ellsworth, Ken Garen, and Christine Sisley

Darcy Gilpin and Rachel Berman

Mary Beth Alberlin and Larry McCaffrey

Michael Trusnovec, Paul Taylor, Damian Woetzel

Michael Trusnovec, Paul Taylor, and Damian Woetzel

Lucy Lang and Scott Asher

John McErnan and Mary Belknap

Hugh Hildesley

Kipton Cronkite

Last Friday night at Freight + Volume, the gallery at 530 West 24th Street and 10th Avenue, Richard Butler opened his show: hyprochondriacattegramercyparkhotel, along with a performance and a video project by Mai Ueda titled Bird Choir.