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 Undiscovered gems and recognized beauty
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| Phoebe Gubelmann, Cynthia Lufkin, Shafi Roepers, Allison Rockefeller, Calvert Moore, and Mark Gilbertson at The Museum of the City of New York Director's Council's annual autumn fundraiser, "NEW YORK AFTER DARK." |
This past Tuesday night, the Hispanic Society of America held its 2009 Gala at 583 Park Avenue. They honored Fundacion E. Arocena, with acceptance by Eneko Belausteguigoiteia Arocena and Jose Pinto Mazal, Fernando d’Ornellas Silva, Blanca Pons-Sorolla, and Antonio del Valle Ruiz.
The Hispanic Society of America is one of New York little known, almost undiscovered gems, probably mainly because of its location – on beautiful Audubon Terrace in upper Manhattan west of Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets.
It was founded and funded by Archer Huntington with the object of establishing a free public museum and reference library for the study of the art and culture of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. Mr. Huntington’s mother Arabella founded the Huntington Museum in Pasadena.
The Hispanic Society museum collections provide a comprehensive history of the culture of the Iberian Peninsula from the Bronze Age to the present century.
This includes its collection of paintings of El Greco, Velasquez and Goya; as well as stone, bronze, ivory and polychrome sculpture. Its library is a preeminent center for research on the history, art and culture of Spain, Portugal and Latin America. It has been a sleeping giant in the world of arts and culture.
The supporters of the society, like those honored on Tuesday night are working to provide its re-awakening in the consciousness of people not only here in New York but all over the world; it is a treasure trove undiscovered. |
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Domenica Cameron-Scorsese |
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Victoria Febrer and Mencia Figueroa |
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Amparo Corsini and Ana Gorvena |
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Gabriella Maria Campagn, Zaheen Khan, and Virginia Cooney |
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Vivienne Tam, Bianca Pratt, and Sumi Trenholme |
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Fernando d'Ornellas Silva and Dr. Mariette Scott |
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Victoria Febrer, Lola Montenegro, and Alicia Viladomat |
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Bisila Bokoko, Juan Paredes, and Diana Bausecca |
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Alejandra de Maqua and Andrew Davis |
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Edmond Beel, Dr. Mariette Scott, and Mary Joan Hoene |
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Antonio del Valle Ruiz, Fernando d'Ornellas Silva, Jose Pinto Mazal, Blanca Pons-Sorolla, and Eneko Belausteguigoitia Arocena |
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Serena Boardman and Todd Meister |
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Aslaug Magnuscottir and Bianca Pratt |
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Kathie Moore and Mary Davidson |
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Mark Davidson and Lore Dodge |
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Dr. Mariette Scott |
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Antonio Urbina and Mencia Figueroa |
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Alicia Viladomat and Peter Lyden |
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Elena Athmaro |
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Francisco Lorenzo and Blanca Pons-Sorolla |
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Bianca Pratt and Richard Meier |
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Louis Rose and Alexandra Lind Rose |
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George Moore |
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Serena Boardman, Christopher Getty, and Masha Mimran |
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Gabriel Rivera-Barraza, Mencia Figueroa, and Bibhu Mohapatra |
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George Moore and Dr. Mitchell Codding |
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Hugo Fontela, Victoria Febrer, and Bibhu Mohapatra |
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Manual and Amparo Falco |
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Kathie Moore, Don Kalmbach, and Valerie Kalmbach |
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Mary-Love Harman and Brooke van Gerbig |
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Also this past Tuesday night, The Museum of the City of New York’s Director's Council held is annual autumn fundraiser, with the theme "NEW YORK AFTER DARK."
This year the Council departed from tradition and held the event in the Palm Court and in the Terrace Room at the newly renovated Plaza Hotel. It was a great success. The evening was sponsored by FENDI.
Those dressed in FENDI included Allison Aston, Muffie Potter Aston, Sara Ayres, CeCe Barfield, Tory Burch, Meredith Melling Burke, Jennifer Creel, Caroline Dean, Somers Farkas, Kara Georgiopoulos, Valesca Guerrand-Hermes, Zani Gugelmann, Dayssi Kanavos, Celerie Kemble, Stephanie LaCava, Ros L'Esperance, Eva Lorenzotti, Cynthia Lufkin, Dalia Oberlander, Ulla Parker, Allison Rockefeller, Shafi Roepers, Jill Roosevelt, Helen Schifter, Christine Schwarzman. |
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| Annabella Murphy |
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| Zani Gugelmann |
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| Jean Shafiroff |
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| Stephanie LaCava |
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| Geoffrey Bradfield, Roric Tobin, Guest, and Dr. Douglas Steinbrech |
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| Felicia Taylor and Sam Bolton |
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| Muffie Potter Aston and Alexandra Lebenthal |
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| Rachel Hovnanian and Jill Fairchild |
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| Celerie Kemble and Meredith Melling Burke |
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| Bronson van Wyck |
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| Christian Leone |
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| Graziano de Boni |
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| Douglas Hannant |
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| Greg Calejo, Susan Magrino, Scott Currie, and Allyn Magrino |
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| Masha Irzyk and John Weiss |
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| Dana Stubgen |
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| Blair Husain |
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| Helen Lee Schifter |
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| Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos |
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| Jennifer Creel |
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| Brad Collins, Amy Fine Collins, and Jeffrey Sharp |
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| Herve Pierre, Phoebe Gubelmann, Jenny Fair Williams, and Hamish Bowles |
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| Hamish Bowles and Amy Fine Collins |
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| Cena Jackson and Dalia Oberlander |
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| Frederick Anderson and Somers Farkas |
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| Gregory Speck and Mary McFadden |
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| Tatiana Papanicolaou and Georgina Schaeffer |
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| Phoebe Gubelmann and Cynthia Lufkin |
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| Mario Buatta, Nina Griscom, and Simon Pinninger |
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| Lucio Salvatore and Valesca Guerrand-Hermes |
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| Christina Kovalenko |
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| Sylvana Soto-Ward and Adam Durrett |
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| The New York Film Festival held a screening of “Precious” last Saturday at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Directed by Lee Daniels with screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher based on the novel Push by Sapphire, it is the story of an overweight, illiterate teen in Harlem who is pregnant with her second child and is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes of turning her life around. I haven’t seen the film yet but I will say that everyone I know who has seen it was so moved that they think it’s the best film they’ve seen in many a moon. |
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Paula Patton |
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Harvey Keitel and Daphna Kastner |
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Jane Fonda |
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Xosha Roquemore |
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Mary J. Blige |
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Gayle King |
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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon |
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Lenny and Zoe Kravitz |
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Grace Hightower and Robert De Niro |
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Angelic Zambrana and friend |
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| The Young Women’s Leadership Network hosted its 3rd Annual (Em)Power Breakfast at the Pierre, a week ago Wednesday. |
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| Brenda Rever, Ave Johnson, Maureen Colburn, Dajeana Ford, Lorna Hanley, Ameera Gates, Phil Rever, Shamon, and Diamon Hill |
| The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem (TYWLS, East Harlem), opened in 1996, was the country’s first single-sex public school to open in more than 30 years. TYWLS has made history and headlines preparing low-income students of color with an outstanding college-prep education, offering a personalized, dynamic, hands-on learning environment where girls can thrive academically. |
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| Diana Taylor, Silda Wall Spitzer, and Alexandra Lebenthal |
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| Phebe Farrow Port, Mama Charlton, and Talia Charlton |
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| Lissandra Camacho and Quyn Israel |
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| Barry Weiss and Imani McRae |
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| Alice Tisch and Eden Hammond |
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| Caryn Seidman Becker, Debra Peltz, Dori Cooperman, and Jonathan Tisch |
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| Barry Weiss, Lizzie Tisch, and Jonathan Tisch |
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| Andrew Tisch and Donna Hanover |
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| Edith Cooper and Gloribel Momin |
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| High Voltage |
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| Matilda Cuomo, Joel Klein, and Billie Tisch |
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| Joel Klein, Andrew Tisch, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg |
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| Bara Tisch and Ivanka Trump |
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| Lacey Tisch, Lesley Schulhof, Bara Tisch, Maggie Katz, and Christina Floyd |
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| Operation Smile held its 8th Annual Smile Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills last Friday night. Jessica Simpson and family were presented with the Operation Smile Founders Circle Award. |
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| Deidre Hall |
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| Stephanie Michaels |
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| Josie Davis |
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| Poppy Montgomery |
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| Ashley Hamilton |
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| Michael Copon |
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| Billy Bush |
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| Dr. Bill Dorfman |
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| Timothy Wilson |
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| Shayne Lamas |
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| Jordon Johnson |
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| Roma Downey |
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| Ken Paves and Jessica Simpson |
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| Nicole Lapin |
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| Tina Simpson, Jessica Simpson, and Joe Simpson |
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| Eric Winter and Roselyn Sanchez |
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