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Barnes Foundation
Opening Gala |
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Guests in the Main Room of the Collection Gallery.
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The Barnes Foundation hosted an opening gala at its new campus on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in the heart of Philadelphia on Friday, May 18, 2012. The funds raised will support the care and preservation of the world-renowned Barnes collection. The black-tie event was hosted by Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News and Rock Center, and featured a cocktail reception and tour of the Foundation’s new galleries, followed by a dinner reception with performances by the Avalon Jazz Band, Enon Tabernacle Mass Choir, and special guest artist and multiple Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter/musician Norah Jones. In addition to Barnes architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, and landscape architect Laurie Olin, Pennsylvania Governor Thomas Corbett and First Lady Susan Corbett attended the celebration along with Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Mrs. Lisa Nutter.
The Barnes Foundation inaugural gala was co-chaired by Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, and Aileen K. Roberts, Chair of the Building Committee of the Barnes Foundation Board of Trustees, and James E. Rohr, Chairman and CEO of The PNC Financial Services Group, and Sharon Rohr. In addition to gala co-chairs, Barnes Foundation Executive Director and President Derek Gillman, Barnes Foundation Chairman Dr. Bernard C. Watson attended with Mrs. Watson, along with Barnes trustees The Honorable Jacqueline F. Allen and Mr. Roy Beity, Barnes Foundation vice chairman Joseph Neubauer and Mrs. Neubauer, Mr. and Mrs. Steve J. Harmelin, Dr. and Mrs. Neil L. Rudenstine, Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Bonovitz, , Mr. and Mrs. Donn Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Andre Duggin, Brenda and Larry Thompson, Gwen and Colbert King, Rajiv Savara, and Barnes Foundation Trustee Emerita Agnes Gund. Philanthropists and art supporters in attendance included: Leonard J. Aube, Executive Director, The Annenberg Foundation, Rebecca W. Rimmel, President and CEO of The Pew Charitable Trusts, H. Fitzgerald Lenfest, President of the Lenfest Foundation, and Mrs. Lenfest, David L. Cohen, Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation, Thomas K. Whitford, Vice Chairman, PNC Financial Services Group, J. William Mills, III, Regional President, PNC Financial Services Group, David W. Haas, Chairman, Board of Trustees, William Penn Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. S. Matthew V. Hamilton, Jr., Gala Advisory Committee, Mrs. Samuel M.V. Hamilton, Hamilton Family Foundation, Mrs. and Mrs. John S. “Seward” Johnson II, The Sculpture Foundation, Sidney Kimmel, founder of the Sidney Kimmel Foundation, and Caroline Kimmel, Harold Honickman, Chairman of Pepsi-Cola, and Lynne Honickman, Jane and Leonard Korman, Founders, Jane and Leonard Korman Foundation, Bruce and Robbi Toll, Collectors, Robert B. Menschel, Chairman Emeritus, The Museum of Modern Art Board of Trustees, Mr. Ira Gluskin and Mrs. Maxine Granovsky Gluskin, Collectors and Founders of Gluskin Charitable Foundation, Jeffrey and Marsha Perelman, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Polsky, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Boris and the Roberts Family.
A number of art world leaders were also present, among them: Glenn Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art, and Mrs. Lowry, Marc Porter, Chairman, Christie’s Americas, Lisa Dennison, Chairman, Sotheby's North and South America, and Jock Reynolds, Director, Yale University Art Gallery, Barbara Guggenheim, partner, Guggenheim, Asher and Associates, Matthew Marks, owner of Matthew Marks Gallery NYC, and artist Ellsworth Kelly. Other notable guests included: Senator Arlen and Mrs. Joan Specter, Jeffrey Lurie, Owner, Philadelphia Eagles, Ed Snider, Owner, Philadelphia Flyers, Paul Matisse, Grandson to painter Henri Matisse, and Mimi Matisse, Robert R. Jennings, President of Lincoln University, and Ms. Alma Mishaw, Olivier Serot Almeras, Consul Général de France, Ambassade de France, and Mrs. Almeras, The Honorable Felix Rohatyn and Mrs. Rohatyn, and John Henry Merryman.
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Barnes Foundation Board of Trustees.
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Barnes Foundation Chairman Dr. Bernard Watson and Lois Watson.
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Gala Co-Chairs Brian Roberts and Aileen Roberts.
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Jeanette Neubauer, Ellsworth Kelly, Joseph Neubauer.
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Brian Williams and Jane Gillan Stoddard Williams.
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Stephen Harmelin and Julia Harmelin.
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Mayor Michael Nutter and First Lady of Philadelphia Lisa Nutter.
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Former Governor Ed Rendell.
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