Out & About
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Museum Mingling
Asked to name his favorite work at the Museum of Modern Art yesterday — at a luncheon there in his honor — Russell Carson said, “I don’t have one. To be honest, I’m a board member of the Metropolitan Museum so I don’t spend too much time here.” How did Mr. Carson wind up the object of affection at a museum other than his own? He had been chosen to receive the David Rockefeller Award “for enlightened generosity and advocacy of cultural and civic endeavors,” an occasion that transcended museum boundaries. Directors and trustees from numerous museums — the Met, the Whitney, the Museum of Arts & Design, and of course, MoMA — were in attendance.
The outreach fit nicely with the spirit of MoMA’s education program, overseen by Wendy Woon, for which the luncheon has raised more than $16 million in its history.
