Grand Openings

EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO Benefactor's dinner celebrating the grand opening and preview of the inaugural exhibitions.

BrazilFoundation held its 7th Annual Benefit Dinner at Cipriani 42nd St gathering 440 friends, donors and collaborators in support of social projects in Brazil.

The event celebrated the City of Rio de Janeiro and brought guests to their feet with the beats of Frederick Douglass Academy’s Harlem Samba and Silvia Machete’s irreverent performance.

Guests wore masks and celebrated the city of Rio and its residents: the Cariocas, who in addition to producing one of the biggest shows on earth – Carnaval - are establishing Rio as a worldwide leader in industry, culture, and technology. Rio de Janeiro was recently selected as the first Latin American city to host the Olympics Games (2016.)


	Silvia Machete’s show.

The Dinner honored Alberto Weisser, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bunge Limited; Cosette Alves, President of the Inter-American Culture and
Development Foundation (ICDF); Oskar Metsavaht, Creative Director of Osklen fashions and founder of Institute; and Otaviano Canuto, Vice president of the World Bank and Head of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network.

The event was attended by the Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Antonio Aguiar Patriota, Brazilian Ambassador to the United Nations Maria Luiza Viotti, the Consul of Brazil in New York Osmar Choffi and his wife Katia. Guests also included Miss Brazil Natalia Anderle; models Luciana Curtis, Cristiane Cavalcante and Martha Streck, Brazilian TV host Pedro Andrade and promoter Fernando Tormena.

The Benefit Committee founding chairs include Malu Millerman, Christina Rose, Angela Magarian, Alessandra Emanuel, Nicholas and Patricia Lobaccaro; Marcus Vinicius Ribeiro, Roberta Mazzariol and Jean Marc Bouchut, Iracilda and Pedro Lichtinger and Paula Bezerra de Mello. All proceeds from the event will fund social projects in Brazil in 2010.

BrazilFoundation generates resources to support community based non-profit initiatives across Brazil that foster social capital growth and the development of innovative solutions to local social problems.

In the past eight years, BrazilFoundation has raised over $11 million and supported a total of 184 small and medium-sized non-profits in Brazil.

Leona Forman, Jesus Luz, and Patricia Lobaccaro

Daniela Atwell and Karin Dauch

Ambassador Antonio Aguiar Patriota and Tania Patriota

Sergio and Malu Millerman

Benjamin Thigpen and Pedro Andrade

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Katia Chohfi and Ambassador Osmar Chohfi with Doctor Albert and Linda Levy

Jeane Lopez-Muniz with Vanessa Simone Pereira and Susan L. Segal

Otaviano Canuto

Claudia and Alberto Weisser

Lorenzo Martone and Paloma Jimenez

Patricia and Michael Buckley

Leona Forman, Cosette Alves, and JoAnn Mason

Luciana Curtis, Cristiane Ribeiro, and Marcus Vinicius Ribeiro

Aikasha Ayinde and Ricardo Martiniski

Roberta Mazzariol, Jean-Marc Bouchout, and Alex Ibrahim

Miss Brazil Natalia anderle, Paula Bezerra de Mello, and David Spencer

Olivia Bam Olson and Eric Olson

Alessandra Emanuel

Martha Streck and Oskar Metsavaht

Photographs by Bryant Carmona, Rebeca Axelrud Galbinski and Arilda Costa.

Thursday night's Preview Party for the International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show benefiting the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at the Park Avenue Armory.

Brian and Anna Haughton

Leonel Piraino and Nina Griscom

Phillip Thomas and Georgina Schaffer

Bobette Cohn and Marianna Olszewski

Margaret Russell and Michael Bruno

Howard Elliot and Dina Merrill

Jill and David Gilmour

Gillian and Sylvester Miniter

Christopher and Grace Meigher

Bill Shiland and Amanda Essex

Stephanie Krieger and Jillian Fuller

Barbara de Portago

Lisa Errico

Laurie Carson

Catherine Carey

Tracy Bross

Dr. Asa Abeliovich and Erica Klauer

Ambassador Alan Blinken and Melinda Blinken

Alison Minton and Chris Leasure

Fred Krimendhal and Emilia Saint-Amand

Eleanora and Michael Kennedy

Frances Scaife and Thomas McCarter

Alexia Ryan and Alexandra Lind Rose

Mary and Ian Snow

Virginia Burke and Jorie Kent

Peter and Leslie Jones

Heather Leeds and Anne Keating

Barbara Gardener and Martha Glass

Shelly Clarke and Elizabeth Fuller

Kim and Payson Coleman

Tom Leeds and Anne Keating

Lisa Selby and Ruth Fleischmann

Allison Aston

Jamee Gregory

Chessie Breen

Tory Burch

Christina Addison

Chappy and Melissa Morris

Rebecca Vanneck and Nanette Ross

Adrienne Vittadini, Daisy Soros, and Mary McFadden

Michel Witmer and Dr. Dino Rivera

Geoffrey Bradfield and Helena Lehane

Henri Barguirdjian and Lizzie Tisch

Thomas Jayne and Ti Ti Halle

Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [1]

The annual Henry Grunwald/Lighthouse luncheon at the Metropolitan Club where they honored SONY's CEO Howard Stringer.

Joe Ripp, Sir Howard Stringer, and Debra Bernstein

Ken Auletta and Allen Grubman

Arelene and Alan Alda with Richard Cohen

Joan Ganz Cooney, Warren Hoge, David Monn, and Sharon Hoge

Louise Grunwald and Alice Tisch with friends

Sir Howard Stringer, Nora Ephron, and Mark Ackerman

Joe Ripp with Charles and Clo Cohen

Sir Howard Stringer, Louise Grunwald, and Mark Ackerman

David Monn and Andrew Tisch

Connie Chung and Liz Smith

Pete Peterson and Mort Zuckerman

Rupert Murdoch, Dr. Donald D'Amico, and Dr. Christopher Starr

Alan and Arlene Alda with Allen Grubman

Nora Ephron and Louise Grunwald and friends

Donna Acquavella and Elaine Wynn

Alan Alda and Sir Howard Stringer

Somers Farkas, Andrew Pittel, and Stephanie Goldman-Pittel

On a Wednesday, mid-September, they held the annual Rose Garden Dinner Dance at the New York Botanical Garden. The event commemorates the beauty of the rose and the Garden’s stunning rose collection in its autumn bloom.

The Chairmen of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Burn III, and Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Goldfrank III. Honorary chairs were Mr. and Mrs. James Benenson Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hubbard, and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Nolen.

This year’s dinner dance celebrated several of the New York Botanical Garden’s new building and landscape projects, and honored the benefactors that have made these initiatives possible.

Special tribute was paid to Amy P. Goldman for The Lillian and Amy Goldman Stone Mill – one of New York City’s prized landmark buildings dating back to 1840, which is currently in the process of being restored for use as a catering facility to produce vital earned revenue for the Garden – and Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan for the Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan Horticulture Operations Center – an eco-friendly addition to the Garden’s resources that will enable Horticulture staff to steward the Garden’s living collections more efficiently and effectively.

In addition, the evening was also a celebration of the restoration of the historic Lilac Collection.

The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, which was in full flower for the dinner dance, features more than 3500 plants and 600 varieties of roses. The most beautiful of its kind in America, the Rockefeller Rose Garden is being transformed into one of the most environmentally friendly rose gardens in the world, while staying true to renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand’s original 1916 concept.

Proceeds from the dinner dance help to maintain and build the Botanical Garden’s renowned rose collection, and support the curator’s continue care and development of one of the world’s premiere rose venues. More than $500,000 was raised by the evening.

Andrea Fahnestock and George Hambrecht

Harry and Jean Burn with Lionel and Dotty Goldfrank

Marvin Davidson, Joan Goodwin, Bill Hamm, Mary Davidson, and Candy Hamm

Anne Hubbard and Roly Nolen

Gillian and Robert Steel

Richard and Maureen Chilton, Mish Tworkowski, and Caroline Wamsler

James Beneson III, Fiona Benenson, Werner and Tatyana Ahlers, and Ben Loehnen

Jane Choate and Dr. William Davis

Gregory Long and Marian Heiskell

Adam R. Rose, Sandra Rose, and Peter R. McQuillan

Patti Fast and guests

Janet Davenport with William and Suzanne O'Connor

Janet Ross, Kent Barwick, and Amy Goldman

Hamilton and Edie Kean

Friederike Biggs and Melissa Biggs Bradley

Jeffrey Fagen and Isabel Rose

Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [2]

Last Wednesday night El Museo del Barrio held a Benefactors Dinner at the museum celebrating the grand opening and preview of the Inaugural Exhibitions Nexus New York/Latin American Artists in the Modern Metropolis and Voces Y Visiones; Four Decades through El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection with the unveiling of the new Carmen Ana Unanue Galleries.

Yaz Hernandez, Nazira Handal, Vilma Brennan, Valentin Hernandez, Letty Prescitti, Carlos Ponce, Berni Gilfonce, Jean Schafiroff, and Brook Christopher.

El Museo was founded 40 years ago by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz and a coalition of parents, educators, artists, and activists who noted that mainstream museums largely ignored Latino artists. Since its inception, El Museo has been committed to celebrating and promoting Latino culture, thus becoming a cornerstone of El Barrio, and a valuable resource for New York City. El Museo’s varied permanent collection of over 6,500 objects spanning more than 800 years of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino art includes pre-Columbian Taíno artifacts, traditional arts, twentieth-century drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations, as well as prints, photography, documentary films and video.

Arnaldo Morales and Scherezave

Alfonso Munoz and Jose Vidal

Alexandra Seegers and Leon Tovar

David Martinez and Charles Nordlander

Sari Ross and Monica Titera

Daryl Otte and Arthur Cohen

Bart and Louky Keijserskoning

Edison Alban and Omar Velazquez

Dennis and Blanca Taylor

Didi Pei, Julian Zugazagoitia, and Beatrice Pei

Esther Gaffron, Alejandra Redo, and Michel de Langlade

Jamie Ansorge and Leala Omamsky

Evelyn Miller and Jonathan Lee

Jonathan Crespo and Antoine Vigne

Richard Turley, Tony Beachara, Marie O'Mara, and andy Unanue

Beatriz de la Mora, Luisa Largos, and Ayvonne Garcia

Harry Smith and Marcia Gomid

Ivan Hopkins and Dora Marshall

Julian Zugazagoitia and Randy Rosen

Ruben Toledo, Isabel Toledo, and Julian Zugazagoitia

Reinaldo Herrera, Yaz Hernandez, Carolina Herrera, and Valentin Hernandez

Jim Burns and Michelle de la Cruz

Michelle de Leon and Mariana Salem

Michel Heredia and Christian Cota

Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Monique Ortiz-Arndt, Julian Zugazagoitia, and Tony Bechara

Rob Arango, Liz Neumark, Yaz Hernandez, and Valentin Hernandez

Matt Tichenor and Adam Bildersec

Sarah Julig and Tom Finkelpearl

Ulrika Brand and Mark Golberg

Yaz Hernandez and Carolina Herrera

Carmen Ana Unanue, Julian Zugazagoitia, and Tasha Zugazagoitia

Mary Wallach and Tony Bechara

Raphael Montanez Ortiz and Monique Ortiz-Arndt

Nathan Norse and Christine Cachot

Teresa Bulgheroni, Lilly Scarpetta de Pumarejo, and Yolanda Santos

Phil Pinto and Beethoven Torres

Photographs by PatrickMcMullan.com [3]

More than 150 of Chicago's most fashionable women gathered at the Chanel boutique at 935 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago on the last Wednesday in September to celebrate I Love Your Style with author Amanda Brooks.

Brooks, a New York City fashionista, chose Chanel as the destination for her celebration and book signing as the boutique showcased new cruise collection arrivals.

Chanel's Vice President of Retail, Susan Platworthy was on hand to discuss the cruise collection recently debuted in Milan with Karl Lagerfeld.

Event hostesses Kimberly Burt, Caroline Beak Crown, Meredith Wood-Prince and Alexis Ross sipped champagne and Vodka Basil Limonata cocktails alongside fashion gurus including Nate Berkus, Amy Tara Koch, Lisa Kingsley, Carrie Kane, Sharon Watrous and more.

Guests had their books signed and tried on Chanel's luxurious fashions all while tasting Wild Mushroom Panna Cotta, Seared Ahi Tuna and Basmati Rice Cakes, Black and White Truffles and more by Finesse Cuisine.