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| Last Thursday night at the Central Park Zoo, The Wildlife Conservation Society hosted its first Sip For The Sea benefit to support the New York Aquarium as it recovers from Hurricane Sandy. The evening featured pairings of sustainable wines from The Hess Collection with sustainable seafood and other special offerings from some of New York's top restaurants. The New York Aquarium was devastated by the impact of the hurricane, just days before it was to break ground for an exciting new exhibit called Ocean Wonders: Sharks! Since that time plans to expand the Aquarium, developed in 2009 in partnership with the City of New York, have become a joint commitment to rebuild and transform the Aquarium's exhibits, programming, and Coney Island campus. The New York Aquarium reopened on a partial basis in May (to be fully reopened in the spring of 2016). |
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| The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together these activities change attitudes towards nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony. WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth. |
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| US chairman of the China Arts Foundation, Angela Chen, hosted an intimate cocktail party this past Friday night in her Park Avenue apartment for visiting Shanghai based China Arts Foundation board member Boming Wang, known as one of the most powerful media excutives in Asia. The China Arts Foundation (CAF) is a non-profit organization that helps to ensure that the intense global interest in contemporary Chinese art and culture has a sustainable future, and to help increase two–way knowledge and understanding between China and the rest of the world, in the arena of art and culture. |
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| Elisabeth Resch, Danijela Lazarevic, Andy Serwer, and Angela Chen |
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| Juan Duysse, Zhaodan Huang, Rochelle Ohrstrom, Jamie Keyte, Huang Ruo, and Roy Kean |
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| Yin Zhao, Andy Serwer, and Tiffany Dubin |
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| Angela Chen, Huang Ruo, and Elisabeth Resch |
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| Wilson Ling, Angela Chen, and Joost |
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| Andy Serwer, Rochelle Ohrstrom, and Noel Lateef |
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| Shirley Young and Shayne Doty |
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| Andy Serwer and Yin Zhao |
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| Chanel Korby and Lizzy Harris |
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| Boming Wang, Danijela Lazarevic, and Angela Chen |
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| Angela Chen and Stephen Orlins |
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| On September 10th, New Yorkers converged to fête designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka on the opening of their Manhattan boutique, Badgley Mischka (24 East 64th Street). The affair was the perfect way to celebrate the advent of the designers' first New York store where all of their collections can be found at one location; couture, ready-to-wear, bridal, and accessories. The evening also served to benefit the American Ballet Theatre and was hosted by ABT members Julia Koch, Sutton Stracke, Caryn Zucker, Adrienne Arscht, Cornelia Guest, and Arriana Boardman. |
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| Guests included: Kate Allen, Adrienne Arsht, Muffie Potter Aston, Chesie Breen, Lady Liliana Cavendish, Helene Comfort, CeCe Cord, Jennifer Creel, Kipton Cronkite, Milly de Cabrol, Jill Fairchild, James Fallon, Fe Fendi, Lydia Fenet, O'Hara Fottrell, Honour Fottrell, Heather Georges, Mark Gilbertson, Cornelia Guest, Mai Hallingby Harrison, Gillian Hearst-Simmonds, Jane Scott Hodges, Chiu Ti Jansen, Nathalie Kaplan, Andrea Karambelas, Julia Koch, Nicola Konsoni, Angelica Konsoni, Elizabeth Kurpis, Judy Licht, Joey Lico, Alexandra Lind Rose, Ghislane Maxwell, Gillian Miniter, Gigi Mortimer, Laura Nicklas, Marie Noelle-Pierce, Deborah Norville, Lauren Shortt Pinto, Daisy Prince, Patty Raynes, Jill Roosevelt, Catherine Sabino, Helen Lee Schifter, Cameron Silver, Sutton Stracke, Yliana Yepez, Caryn Zucker, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jamie Chung, Bryan Greenberg, Petra Nemacova, Daisy Fuentes, and Kate Mara. |
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| On Thursday, September 12, hundreds of art lovers converged on the Museum of the City of New York at 1220 Fifth Avenue to celebrate Central Park and those who gather within its green borders at a gala party to launch Picturing Central Park: Paintings by Janet Ruttenberg. The opening party was attended by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, First Deputy Mayor Patricia Harris, and Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kate Levin;Oscar delaRenta; Central Park Conservancy President Doug Blonsky, andBoard Members Jessica Palmer, Jane McIntosh and Nicole Sexton; Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Senior Partner Ira Millstein; photographer Elliott Erwitt; Billie Tisch; and Liliana Cavendish. The exhibition features never-before-exhibited works created at a massive scale and will be on view from September 13, 2013 to January 5, 2014. |
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| For more than a dozen years, New Yorker Janet Ruttenberg has been a quiet but remarkable fixture in Central Park, sketching the scenery on massive sheets of paper laid on the ground and then returning to her nearby studio to transform them into major works of art, but never exhibiting them publicly until now. “Until this week, Janet Ruttenberg’s work has been a hidden treasure,” said Susan Henshaw Jones, Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum of the City of New York. “This is the chance for all New Yorkers – and visitors from around the world – to discover and celebrate her bold and fantastical paintings and watercolor studies. They are simply amazing!” |
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| Nine works on paper and eight paintings, two with projected video, are in the exhibition. These large-scale works—most measuring 15 feet in width—are supplemented by a selection of preparatory photographs and drawings, depicting the park in the height of its spring, summer, and fall glory. The exhibition is designed by Wendy Evans Joseph of Cooper Joseph Studio and curated by Andrea Henderson Fahnestock. |
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Photographs by Patrick McMullan (WCS) |