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Patti Smith Concert to Benefit American Folk Art Museum |
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Patti Smith performing with her band.
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On Saturday, May 15, 2010, rock legend Patti Smith performed live to celebrate Henry Darger’s birthday in a benefit concert for the American Folk Art Museum at Espace in New York City.
Henry Darger (1892-1973), an American artist from Chicago, created a fantasy world through his writings and scroll-like paintings and is considered one of the most notable artists of the twentieth century. Henry Darger’s intimate collages are currently on view through September 19th for the first time in the museum’s new exhibition “The Private Collection of Henry Darger”.
The benefit also included a short set by singer Caroline Jones and an aerial performance by Cirque-tacular Entertainment. Art In America and Fabrica generously sponsors the event.
Guests include Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Betsey Johnson, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Kelly Bensimon, Ruben and Isabel Toledo, Jake Paltrow, Blythe Danner, Ryan McGinley, Moises de la Renta, Leigh Keno, Steven Sebring (director of Patti Smith: Dream of Life), Valerie Steele, Ulla Van Zeller and Glenda Bailey.
The American Folk Art Museum, founded in 1961, is home to one of the world's preeminent collections of folk art dating from the 18th century to the present day, including soaring weathervanes, dazzling quilts, handsome portraits, and exuberantly painted furniture as well as mythic watercolors and idiosyncratic drawings, paintings, and sculptures by contemporary self-taught artists from the U.S and abroad.
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Betsey Johnson, Museum Director Maria Ann Conelli, Chantal Bacon.
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Justine Wheeler, Jeff Koons.
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Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye.
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Guests, Jan Willem van Bergen Henegouwen, Phyllis Kossoff, Museum Chair Barry Briskin, Young Patron Committee Founder Peyton Cochran.
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Danny Goldberg, Francesca Petrucci, Board member Stephen Corelli.
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Ulla van Zeller, Moises de la Renta.
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Valerie Steele, Isabel Toledo.
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John Major, Sharon Phair, Ruben Toledo.
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Peyton Cochran, Board member Petra Levin.
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Caroline Jones.
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Matt Jackson, Ryan McGinley, Jack Walls, Edward Mapplethorpe.
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Betsey Johnson, Chantal Bacon, Anita Sarko, Wendy Diamond.
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Mark Leavitt, Giulia Weisman, Luise Kleinberg, Mark Weisman, Board member Robert Kleinberg, Karen Leavitt.
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Board members Audrey Heckler and Lucy Danziger and guests.
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Leigh Keno, Maria Ann Conelli, Sarah Sperling, Ryan Kuharic.
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Micah Jesse, Wendy Diamond.
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Cooper Cox, Serena Altschul.
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| Photos: Patrick McMullan |
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