The Parrish Art Museum's Midsummer Black and White Gala
Tami Gross
Nina Griscom and Leonel Piraino
Howard Blum and Beth Rudin DeWoody
Marcia Mishaan
This past weekend in Southampton The Parrish Art Museum held its Midsummer Black and White Gala. The museum’s Midsummer Gala is a major highlight of the Hamptons summer season and this year's didn't disappoint. The co-chairs wore white dresses by Douglas Hannant and $10 million in black and white diamonds by Gilan Jewelers; Hence this year's theme: Black and White.

Beth Rudin DeWoody, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, Sloan Barnett, Debbie Bancroft, Pamela Gross, Burberry’s CEO Rose Marie Bravo and Gilan Jeweler’s CEO Mr. Ferhan Geylan served as chairmen of the evening. Some of the many guests: Patricia Duff, WB11’s Anchor Jim Watkins, Nina Griscom, Douglas Hannant, James and Whitney Fairchild, Somers and Jonathan Farkas, Jan Cowles, Rachel and Ara Hovnanian, Alex Kramer, Chappy Morris, Fiona and Stan Druckenmiller, James and Charlene Nederlander, Dr. Howard Sobel, Dr. Patrick Stubgen and Dana Hammond.
John Gruen and Jane Wilson
Jan Cowles and Charlie Cowles
Henry and Leila Heller
Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Bettina Zilkha and Mark Fabry
Jimmy Niedlander and Charlene Niedlander
L. to r.: Pamela Gross Finkelstein and Jason Binn; Cynthia Lufkin, Somers Farkas, and Dana Stubgen; Larry and Michele Herbert.
Kathy and Rick Hilton
Cathy de Montezemolo
Dana Stubgen and Lorinda Ash
Kelly Cole and Billy Hillman
James and Whitney Fairchild
Fabian Basabe and Amanda Richmond
Jimmy Finkelstein and Pamela Gross Finkelstein
Elliot Stringham and Etta Froia

Photographs by Patrick McMullan/PMc



Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project welcomed the first Boathouse on The Harlem River in over a century
Commissioner Bernadette Castro, Gov. George Pataki, Bette Midler, and Benjamin F. Needell
MC Liz Smith
The Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Yoko Ono, Glenn Close, Governor George E. Pataki, Ann Ziff, and Liz Smith presided over the opening of The Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse at Swindler Cove Park, the first Boathouse on The Harlem River in over a century!

The Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse will be the home of New York Restoration Project’s (NYRP’s) community rowing programs for neighborhood youth, which will provide access to the Olympic sport of rowing to underserved high school students. The chance to excel in the sport has the potential to provide a means of attaining athletic scholarships to colleges and universities.

The Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse is the centerpiece of Swindler Cove Park, the new five-acre jewel on the Harlem River waterfront in northern Manhattan that opened its gates in the summer of 2003. The park is a cooperative effort with the New York Restoration Project and the City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation and was designed, funded, and constructed by the State of New York Department of Transportation.

The Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse, designed by noted architect Robert A.M. Stern, will be (with the adjacent Riley-Levin Children’s Garden) the focal point for environmental education and boating programs for underserved children, at-risk students, and the general public.
Dr. Amy Goldman, Yoko Ono, and Martin Von Haselberg
Norman Peck
Herb Gallen and Linda Allard with Bette Midler
Bunny Koppelman and Bernadette Castro
Glenn Close and family
Sarah Nash, Bette Midler, and Michael Sylvester
Highbridge Voices children's choir
Robert A.M. Stern, Bette Midler, and Dr. Amy Goldman
Gifford Miller and Bette Midler
Sarah Jessica Parker
John Loring and Bette Midler

Photographs by Mia Matheson



Caramoor Festival launched its summer season with a Latin evening in a garden of great music
David Oxman, Zita Rosenthal, David Moreinis, and Dede Moss
Judy Evnin and Michael Barrett
The Italian Pavillion at Caramoor
Caramoor Festival launched its summer season with a Latin evening in a garden of great music. Caramoor’s 59th annual summer festival opened on June 26th with Night in the Garden of Spain, a celebration of Spanish-inspired music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Falla, Sarasate and Ginastera at Caramoor’s Venetian Theater. Gala co-chairs were Sandy and David Moreinis and corporate co-chairs were Kathy and Peter Scaturro.

Caramoor Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor Peter Oundjian conducted the Festival’s resident orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, with pianist Cecile Licad and violinist Jennifer Frautschi as soloists.

Night in the Garden of Spain launched the Festival’s summer concerts, which run through August 14, and is also the first of Caramoor's new four-part Latin Evenings Series, which encompasses an eclectic mix of classical and contemporary Spanish music through jazz, classical, opera and vocal concerts.
Michael Barrett and the Caramoor Orchestra
Caramoor is the legacy of Walter and Lucie Rosen, who built the great house and filled it with their treasures. Walter Rosen was the master planner for the Caramoor estate, bringing to reality his dream of creating a place to entertain friends from around the world. Their musical evenings were the seeds of the International Music Festival today. Realizing the pleasure their friends took in the beauty of Caramoor – the house with its art collection; the gardens; and the musical programs on summer evenings – the Rosens established a Foundation to open Caramoor to the public in perpetuity.
Bob and Dede Moss with Phyllis and Michael Berger
Jeffrey Goodman, Caroline Shephard, and Drew and Barbara Cerasio
Jennifer Frautschi, Peter Oundjian, and Cecile Licad
Michael Gellert and Peter Oundjian
Michael and Nina Stanton
Peter Oundjian conducting The Orchestra of St. Lukes

Photographs by Richard Harbus


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