2wice magazine's photo art installation, themed Picnic
Nancy Dalva, Stephen Petronio, Jean Marc, and Ashley Leite
Guests perusing back and current issues 2wice magazine
Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris, Karole Armitage, Peter Boal and Tom Gold are all subjects of a Photo Art installation with the theme of Picnic, (as featured in a 2002 issue of 2wice Magazine) now showing through August 1 at the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery of the Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center.
Blue gingham, vases of origami flowers fashioned from recycled magazines.
Tables set with blue gingham, vases of origami flowers fashioned from recycled magazines (tear sheets from "2wice"), gallery walls upholstered in red gingham, background for the nine-foot high photographs, gazing at some of the most famous choreographers and dancers working today.

The installation is the brainchild of 2wice’s founder and editor Patsy Tarr and art director Abbott Miller. The witty, edgy, erotic photographs are by Christian Witkin, Martin Schoeller, Andrew Eccles and Tony Rinaldo – reveal fresh perceptions of the revered subjects: Cunningham, Taylor, Tharp, Boal, Petronio, Armitage and Gold.

Then there is Mark Morris, clad in a blue gingham suit, flip flops on his feet and a daisy between his teeth with a background, of blue gingham. And there is a witty reversal of Manet’s "Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe," with a naked Jamie Bishton surrounded by a coterie of formally dressed females and another disrobed male also on a picnic.

Twyla Tharp Dance members line up with the choreographer playing peek-a-boo with the camera. The Paul Taylor Dance Company is a blur of movement performing Taylor’s classic of biting social comment, "Cloven Kingdom."
Nici Bloom looking at Martin Schoeller's photograph of choreographer Twyla Tharp and the Tharp Dance Company.
The exhibition is open during daily film screenings at Walter Reade Theater, at 165 West 65th Street. Theater opens at 12:30 PM Monday through Friday, and one half hour before the first screening on Saturday and Sunday. When there are no evening film screenings, the theater closes at 6 PM. Check the website of the Lincoln Center Film Society, www.filmlinc.com, for exact times of screenings.

" Picnic" is also being shown at the Institut de Cultura in Barcelona, Spain, from June 18 – August 23, 2003.

Picnic was created by 2wice, the performance and art magazine, in connection with the New York Video Festival, a part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

For magazine subscription information, visit www.2wice.org.
Jennifer Tarr with Mark Morris
Patsy Tarr and John Kelly, theater artist.
Peter Boal, New York City Ballet principal dancer with Odile Reine-Adela
Top image: Stephen Petronio photographed by Christian Witkin in his solo "Broken Man."
Peter Boal photographed by Christian Witkin.
Tom Gold photographed by Andrew Eccles for the photo essay Tom Gold is Silver.
Jackie and Gene Brody
Dr. Gerald Imber and friend
Merce Cunningham
Barbara Washkowitz and Jeff Tarr, Jr.
 
Betty Halbreich with her niece
Main Squeeze, the accordionist
Jane Rosch, 2wice Managing Editor, rolling posters of Mark Morris which were given to guests at the end of the evening.
Donna Lewis

Photographs by Jeff Hirsch/NYSD.com.



The Southampton Fresh Air Home's 16th annual American Picnic
Samantha Flemming and Caroline Schoen
Oliver Hammond and Lydia Hearst
Barbara Kugler and Dee Mayberry
Caroline Dean and Heather Leeds
Southampton Fresh Air Home held their 16th annual American Picnic on the lawn Mr. and Mrs. David K. Ganek on Meadow Lane, timed to watch the fantastic Grucci Fireworks show that lit up the skies over Shinnecock Bay.

They had games and entertainment and the proceeds for the event benefitted the Southampton Fresh Air Home, which is a residential camp bringing specialized care to physically challenged children without regard to their ability to pay. The Fresh Air Home has been ongoing for a century now.
The scene at the 16th annual American Picnic.
The event was sponsored by Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs, the Joel B. Leff Charitable Trust

In attendance were Committeee Chairmen Ellen L’Esperance, Barbara McEntee and Pam Schoen; Tom and Heather Leeds; Leila and Henry Heller; Henry Buhl; Amanda Hearst, Randall and Barbara Smith (she is chairman of the board of trustees of the Southampton Fresh Air Home); Bill and Pamela Michaelcheck (she is President of the Southampton Fresh Air Home); Mildred Brinn (SFAH Board Member); Clair Mulholland (SFAH Board Member) and Lizi Obolensky. Members of the SFAH board of directors besides the aforementioned, include Mrs. Chris Burch, Mrs. Philip St. G. Cocke V, Mrs. James C. Cowles, Mrs. John Jay Dalessandro II, Mrs. Allessandro di Montezelmolo, Mrs. Roberto de Guardiola, Mrs. Jonathan Farkas, Mrs. James M. Galef, Mrs. Francesco Galesi, Mrs. Howard Gittis, Mrs. Pamela Gross-Finklestein, Mrs. Henry Heller, Mrs. Thomas Kempner, Jr., Mrs. Thomas V. Leeds, Mrs. Dan W. Lufkin, Mrs. Thomas Mahoney IV, Mrs. Edward Minskoff. Mrs. Harry Slatkin, Mrs. Jeanne Sorensen-Leff, and many others.
Alan and Barbara Glatt, Pam Schoen, and Jackie Goodwin
Mariane and Edward Mule, Barbara Tollis, and Christine Biddle
Robert Marx, Amanda Hearst, and Clara Schaffer
Melissa Minus, Catherine Flemming, Annie McCray, and Lala Flemming
Layla Heller, Anne Grimm, Mayor Joseph Romanowski Jr., Pat Romanowski, and Pam Michaelcheck
Grucci Fireworks show
Alan, Charlotte, Barbara, and Carter Glatt
Nan Morehead, DeeDee Burke, and Anne Grimm

Photographs by Patrick McMullan/PMc.



Cocktail reception to honor Veronica Etro's first U.S. appearance
Alisha Farmer, Jeff Zakariaf, Veronica Etro, David Asher, and Melodie Weir
Preston Adams, Amanda Hearst, and Julian Farel
Amanda Hearst hosted a private cocktail reception to honor Veronica Etro in her first U.S. appearance at Bergdorf’s. Miss Etro is the head designer of the women’s collection for ETRO which was founded by her father Gimmo Etro. Miss Hearst is one of the newer and prettier of the young celebrity models (a path blazed by her childhood friends, the Hilton sisters) darlings of the celebrity paparazzi. So it wasn’t a bad idea having Miss Hearst on the invitation.

The reception took place in the new Etro boutique on the sixth floor of the Fifth Avenue store. All of Miss Hearst’s friends and their mothers and their friends got to see this “exclusive” presentation of the ETRO fall collection, worn by models adorned in exotic leopard masks.
Valerie Salembier
Sarah Schaffer, Paige Ryan, and Amanda Hearst
Katia Nicole and Tanya Byers
In the model eclectic crowd: couture designer Maggie Norris, CeCe Cord, Elizabeth Keiselstein-Cord, Patrick McMullan, Elite model Karolina Muller, Michele Gerber Klein, Chef Rocco DiSpirto, Interior designers Mark Epstein and Richard Mishaan, Marcia Mishaan, Sotheby’s Royce Pinkwater, head of Elite Celebrity’s Christine Schott, Film maker Austin Stark, Edward Tricomi, Julian Farrell, Eric Benn from the Bubble Lounge, Ingrid Sischy, Olivia Chantecaille, Francesca Visconti, and Alice Juddelson.

Miss Hearst was wearing a sophisticated Etro chocolate halter blouse with elongated bell and ribbon sleeve, Francesca Visconti earrings and a brown and black Etro starburst Venetian handbag. Veronica was dressed in Etro turquoise and brown floral print poncho with silver sequin floral embroidery, Francesca Visconti turquoise necklace with a large turquoise and gold starburst Venetian Etro handbag. That’s about it. Can I tell you what brand of cell phones the girls had. Or watches? Do I know? No.

Photographs by Patrick McMullan/PMc.



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