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Archives: Posts From May 2008
Gala brings in $3 million gift for El Museo del Barrio
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 23 May 2008 at 1:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The gala itself raised $850,000 Thursday night at Cipriani, but a surprise announcement late in the evening increased the impact of the night significantly for this critically acclaimed museum on Museum Mile devoted to Latin and Caribbean art, set to ...
Alanna Heiss takes a picture
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 22 May 2008 at 4:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Here's the sign of a museum director in the swing: After photog Sandra Hamburg snapped her photo, Ms. Heiss took the camera and snapped one back... captured at the Kitchen benefit last night.View here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYMWGP2DHQY ...
Art parties for IFA and the Kitchen
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 22 May 2008 at 11:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Photos from the Institute of Fine Arts 75th anniversary celebration (that's Richard Meier entering the institute for the party on Tuesday, above):http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080521ifaAnd last night's Kitchen benefit: T-shirts, ball ...
Do Cows Fly? They do at NYC Parties
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 20 May 2008 at 5:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The New York Foundation for the Arts benefit was pretty fun, as is on display in this video. Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSr71f-eLio ...
A Week's Worth of Whirl
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 19 May 2008 at 5:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In the week ahead, the benefit circuit brings us events for National Audubon Society, American Ballet Theatre, 92nd Street Y, the Kitchen, SummerStage, El Museo del Barrio, Riverkeeper, and the Noguchi Museum.And here's what we got to do in the week just ...
Chad Row for 'Recount' Premiere
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 14 May 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: At the premiere of "Recount" at MoMA Tuesday night, the president of HBO Films, Colin Callender, noted the auspicious timing of a film about the election process, in an election year. "As good the HBO press department is, it could not have created the ...
Order out of Social Chaos
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 10 May 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: So much going on this week, when I sat down Wednesday night to make a list of all the parties I'd gone to so far, the list had 10 items on it. And it was only Wednesday.
Now it's Saturday, I technically have the day off, but I have a baby naming in ...
Pretty in Camelot
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 9 May 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: At the top of the list of fun nights at Avery Fisher Hall is the New York Philharmonic's performance of a popular work at springtime. This year it's Lerner & Loewe's Camelot. On opening night of athe limited run, ladies were pretty as princesses, men ...
Ice Palace @ Costume Institute Gala
By Amanda Gordon | Mon, 5 May 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The Temple of Dendur tonight has been transformed into an ice palace for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute gala hosted by Giorgio Armani, with chairmen Julia Roberts and George Clooney.
Guests will go up the 26 steps of the museum's ...
Gallery Adds: Ballet, Night in D.C., Young Lions, PEN
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 2 May 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Scenes from this week's parties:
The White House Correspondents' Bash: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080428whca
New York City Ballet Opening Night: http://www.shutterfly.com/pro/nysun/outandabout/20080502nycb
Young Lions at the New ...
Naming at Namer's Peril
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 2 May 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The risk of naming gifts is often put on the side of the institution: what if the donor gets into trouble, or can't pay up in full? But a recent story in the Yale Daily News about the Thain Cafe in the new Bass Library at Yale (yes, the Thain running ...
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