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American Federation of Arts
2011 Gala & Cultural Leadership Awards |
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Philippe de Montebello, Honoree Earl A. Powell III, Honoree Marina Abramovic, and Klaus Biesenbach.
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The American Federation of Arts (AFA) held its 2011 Fall Gala & Cultural Leadership Awards on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at the Metropolitan Club in New York. This year’s honorees were renowned performance artist Marina Abramović and National Gallery of Art Director Earl A. Powell III. Abramović and Powell were introduced and their awards presented by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and a Chief Curator at Large at the Museum of Modern Art, and Philippe de Montebello, Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums at the Institute of Fine Arts and Director Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, respectively.
The evening began with a cocktail reception, followed by a seated dinner, raffle drawings for a print by April Gornik and a painting by Richard Bell, and dancing and cocktails to conclude the evening. Each guest went home with a fabulous red, custom-edition Moleskine notebook that features excerpts from Abramović’s “An Artist's Life Manifesto” and was designed by Abramović specially for the AFA gala.
Approximately 150 guests attended, including Gala Co-Chairs Lydia Fenet, Clare McKeon, and Capera Ryan; museum directors Ruth S. Appelhof (Guild Hall), William M. Griswold (The Morgan Library and Museum), Anthony Hirschel (Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago), Dorothy Kosinski (The Phillips Collection), Kimerly Rorschach (Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University), Kevin Salatino (Bowdoin College Museum of Art), and Walter W. Timoshuk (Norton Simon Museum); introducers Klaus Biesenbach and Philippe de Montebello; Franklin Kelly (Senior Curator of American and British painting at the National Gallery of Art); Rick Beinecke, Jonathan P. Binstock, Olivia Chantecaille, Stephanie & Frederick Clark, Will Cotton, Blake Gopnik, Lindsay Macdonald Danckwerth, Charlotte N. Eyerman, Sean Kelly, Elizabeth Klein & Lawrence Benenson, Elizabeth Lewis, Christy MacLear, Charles S. Moffett, Daisy Prince & Hugh Chisholm, Victoria Sant, Denise & Andrew Saul, Georgina Schaeffer, Bj Topol, Vicky Ward, and John Wilmerding; and AFA Chief Operating Officer Pauline Willis and AFA Board President Jason Herrick, among many others.
The American Federation of Arts is a nonprofit institution that organizes art exhibitions for presentation in museums around the world, publishes exhibition catalogues, and develops various educational programs. Current and upcoming AFA exhibitions include Richard Bell: Uz vs. Them; Gainsborough, Rembrandt, Van Dyck: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London; Rolling Hills, Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape; Gods and Heroes: Masterpieces from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris; and Matisse as Printmaker: Works from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.
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Marina Abramovic and AFA CEO Pauline Willis.
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AFA Board President Jason Herrick and Dorothy Kosinski.
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Gala Co-Chairs Capera Ryan, Clare McKeon, and Lydia Fenet.
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AFA Trustee Jeffrey Loewy and Ruth Appelhof.
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Bob Linton and AFA Honorary Trustee Margot Linton.
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AFA Trustee Richard Lane, Barbara Lane, Sandra Warshawsky and Stanford Warshawsky.
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Jason Herrick and AFA Trustee Kimerly Rorschach.
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Frederick Clark and Stephanie Clark.
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Todd Bishop, Klaus Biesenbach, Lawrence Benenson, Marina Abramovic, Tunji Adeniji, Peter Katz, Rebecca Taylor.
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Jonathan Binstock and Kevin Salatino.
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Walter W. Timoshuk.
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Vicky Ward and Robert McKeon.
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Georgina Schaeffer and Stephanie Clark.
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Davin Staats and Ashley Staats.
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Clare McKeon, Rose Dergan, Will Cotton, Olivia Chantecaille, and Ren Grady.
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Liz Klein, Jonathan Binstock, and Naomi Baigell.
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Ann Kinney and Gilbert Kinney.
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Pauline Willis, Earl A. Powell III, and Marina Kellen French.
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Sloan Overstrom and Caitlin Davis.
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Sidney Felsen and Joni Moisant Weyl.
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Sean Kelly, Marina Abramovic, Jason Herrick, and Charlotte Eyerman.
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| Photos: © Julie Skarratt (2011) |
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