American Museum of Natural History held its annual Museum Ball, raising $1.5 million
Mary Alice Stevenson
Sarah Jessica Parker and Jessica Seinfeld
Raymond Chambers
Tom Brokaw

Last Wednesday night the American Museum of Natural History held its annual Museum Ball and raised $1.5 million. More than 400 guests attended, with cocktails in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda and a special viewing of Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest in Gallery 3.

Ball Chairs were Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Ralph Schlosstein and Jane Hartley, Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld, Aerin and Eric Zinterhofer, David and Julia Koch and Connie and Stephen Spahn.
Dinner under the Blue Whale
Among the more than 400 guests who joined the Museum’s President Ellen V. Futter and Board Chairman Lewis Bernard were Ms. Parker, the Seinfelds, the Spahns, Billy and Kate Lee Joel, Narciso Rodgriquez, Karolina Kurkova, Amy Sacco, Tom and Meredith Brokaw, David and Julia Koch, Anne and Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, Damien and Lilian von Stauffenberg, Lesley Stahl and Aaron Latham, Kimba Wood and Frank Richardson, Constance and Stephen Spahn, Jodie and John Eastman, Vic and Pat Ganzi, Wendy Vanderbilt Lehman, Valerie and Jeffrey Peltier, Jonathan Rose, Ralph Schlosstein and Jane Hartley, Jurate Kazickas and Roger Altman, William T. Golden, Ellen Liman, Cristyne Nicholas, and Jack Rosenthal.
Nancy and Hart Fessenden
William Golden, Sibyl Golden, Chip White, and Catherine Morrison
Victor Ganzi, Ellen Futter, and Daniel Davids
Leslie Stahl, Aaron Letham, Frank Richardson, and Kimba Wood
Ellen Futter with Constantine and Anne Sidamon-Eristoff
Sarah Jessica Parker, Narciso Rodriguez, and Jessica Seinfeld
Lewis Bernard, John Jodie and Eastman, Kate Lee Joel, and Billy Joel
Noelle Hancock
Amy Sacco, Karolina Kurkova, and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
David Koch
Sarah Jessica Parker and Jerry Seinfeld
Billy Joel and Kate Lee Joel
L. to r.: Connie Spahn, Ellen Futter, and Jurate Kazickas; Lewis and Jill Bernard; Lilian von Stauffenberg.

Photographs by D. Finnin/AMNH



Marc Chagall at Maya Stendhal Gallery
From the Chagall exhibit at Maya Stendhal Gallery
There were socialites, artists, actors, dealers, collectors and curators at Maya Stendhal Gallery last Thursday evening for the opening of the Marc Chagall, Paintings 1940 –1980 exhibition.

The show features an engaging collection of fourteen intimate paintings from the last 45 years of the artists’ extensive career, and marks the first public viewing of these works. Of particular interest was Sight of Paris, c. 1978, a classic Chagall, on view in the viewing room. Works painted late in Chagall’s career and evocative of his childhood in Russia such as Peasant with Rooster, c. 1970 and Solomon on his Throne, c.1980 dazzled Chagall enthusiasts.
Chagall's Sight of Paris, c. 1978 at Maya Stendhal Gallery
To celebrate the unveiling of the fourteen paintings by the renowned artist was a private cocktail reception attended by actor Gabriel Byrne, video artist Jeff Scher, and artist/filmmaker Bill Morrison and Manhattan attorney Susan Shin. Also present were Owner of Tao Rich Wolf, Peter Mellon, former President Clinton’s advisor Doug Band, Olivia Striffler, Frederick Lembeck, writer for Law and Order Warren Leight, New York Times’ Alyson R. Kanney, and art dealer John Salvo.

In the Project Room was the New York premiere of Women at an Exhibition, a music and video collaboration with composer Randall Wolff and acclaimed filmmakers Mary Harron (American Psycho, 2000) and John C. Walsh (Pipe Dream, 2002).
Anna Bohichik and Laura Porter
Gabriel Byrne and Maya Stendhal
Richard Wolf and Maya Stendhal
Kataryna and Maya Stendhal
Renier Ridgeway, Toula Livanos, and Nuria Brillembourg
Maya Stendhal, Susan Shin, Renier Ridgeway, and Alice Mollenhaver Von Zaborowski
Jeff Scher and Maya Stendhal

Photographs by Chance Yeh/PMc


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