Party Pictures 9/20/05 - The Center for Advancement of Women's 10th anniversary gala; The American debut of Paris based artist, Marc Ash at The Remy – Toledo Gallery; The Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) celebrated the launch of their 2006 calendar

The Center for Advancement of Women held its 10th anniversary gala at the Waldorf

Clockwise from above: Patti Austin; Lesley Stahl; Hon. Madeleine Albright; Sherry Lansing; Joy Behar.

Two weeks ago, the Center for Advancement of Women held their 10th anniversary gala at the Waldorf. They honored “Women Who Changed the Landscape for Women,” Madeleine Albright, Sherry Lansing, and Gloria Steinem at its 10th anniversary gala. The three honorees certainly left their imprimatur on their fields – Albright as the first US Secretary of State, Lansing as the first women head of production of not one but two major film studios, and Ms. Steinem whose influence is so widespread that the title “Ms.” was either created by her (as was the magazine of the same name she created) or forever associated with her.

Faye Wattleton and Kathleen Turner

The event was hosted by the Center’s President, the beautiful Faye Wattleton, and Joy Behar, with special guests in attendance including Kathleen Turner, Dr. Ruth, Aiden Turner, Lesley Stahl, Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker, Nely Galan, Donna Hanover, and Patti Austin.

The Center for the Advancement of Women is a not-for-profit, independent, nonpartisan research and public education institution established to advance women’s equal participation at every level of society. Ms. Wattleton comes to her position having been President of Planned Parenthood for 14 years. During her tenure there Planned Parenthood became the 7th largest charity in America. In 2000, Esquire magazine named her one of the 25 most influential people in America.

Gloria Steinem, Kathleen Turner, Madeleine Albright, Faye Wattleton, Dr. Ruth, and Joy Behar

The Center’s mission is to ensure women's rights and opportunities worldwide by:

• Conducting and sponsoring research to identify issues that are important to women and to understand how women's experiences in their daily lives affect their larger worldview and place in society.

• Changing the way opinion leaders, policymakers, academic institutions and the general public think about women by increasing awareness of the facts, and of women's actual opinions and concerns.

• Shaping and promoting research-based public policy positions that advance issues of importance to women.

Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry

Nely Galan, Faye Wattleton, and Boaz Mazor

April Silver, Faye Wattleton, and Mary Kay Penn

Lois Sasson and Susan Kahaner

Marcia Ann Gillespie (right) and friend

Dr. Felicia Suttle and Patti Austin

Patricia Carey, PhD. and Cordia Beverley

Carol Wood Moore and Richard Johnson

Karen Mann, Hilda Polanco des Rich, and Roy Rich

Angela Burt-Murray

Photographs by Heidi Schumann

The American debut of Marc Ash at The Remy – Toledo Gallery

Ivy Barsky, Marc Ash, and Dr. David Marwell

Marc Ash with Tous Ensemble at Remy Toledo Gallery

Although there were more than fifty gallery openings the same evening in Chelsea, the American debut of Paris based artist, Marc Ash at The Remy – Toledo Gallery, created the greatest buzz among the collectors, curators and art mavens.

Ash’s provocative and powerful commentary on the Holocaust, “this century of genocide,” Tous Ensemble (All Together) was the sensation of the 50th Biennale in Venice. The collection drew staggering crowds to subsequent showings at Madrid’s Circulo des Bellas Artes and Milan’s Palazzo Reale where he was the first ever-living artist to be displayed there – and at the invitation of the President of Italy.

The artist has the support of Posy Chisolm Feick of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Ms. Feick who calls New York, Milan, Venice, Palm Beach, Cuernavaca, Toronto and India home at various times, depending on her need to support great talents, pulled out all the stops to make Ash’s introduction a smashing success. As a result, the opening was packed with Palm Beachers, Torontonians, Europeans and South Americans, and even a contingent from Moscow!

Feick, gallery owner Asher Remy-Toledo, Ash and his beautiful wife Martine, received their guests which included David Marwell, co-founder and Executive Director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust with associate director Ivy Barsky, International jet-setters Pia Cafiero Ullman and Rose Marie Parravicini from Milan, Bianca Soto from Madrid, Gayle Wilson (Feick’s daughter) and Walter Moos from Toronto, Renata Countess Von bon Boyens from Cuernavaca, Susan Hill, David Coiro, Jan Pederson, Beatriz de la Mora and Mezrahi Dany.

Upon leaving the gallery, guests were met by a herd of limousines to shuttle them to Remy-Toledo’s spectacular three story gallery / home for a late night supper of Moroccan savories created by Ora restaurant owner Hicham Enhaili and Sophia Salih with entertainment provided by a jazz trio.

Ash was particularly excited that the next stop for the collection will likely be the famed century and a half-old art gallery Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, a concept that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

Asher Remy Toledo and David Marwell

Marc Ash and Renata Countess Von bon Boyens

Gayle Wilson with Mom Posy Feick, Rose Marie Parravicini, and Pia Cafiero Ullman

Lucie Porges, Walter Moos, and Martine Ash

Martine Ash, Alexander And Natella Voiskounski, Marc Ash, And Pia Cafiero Ullman

Pia Catero Ullman with Marc and Martine Ash

Posy Feick and Lorca Simons

Sophia Salih and Hicham Enhali

David Coiro and friend

Susan Hill, John Wegorzewski, and Jan Pederson

Rose Marie Parravicini, Posy Feick, David Coiro, and Bianca Soto

Mezrahi Dahy, Gayle Wilson, and Bianca Soto

Inside Asher Asher Remy Toledo's apartment

The Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) celebrated the launch of their 2006 calendar

Fred Krimendahl and Emilia Saint-Amand with Patsy Tarr

Choo Choo Tarr, the host

Two Sundays ago, The Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) celebrated the launch of their 2006 calendar at the home of the Tarr family in East Hampton. The cocktail party was attended by 125 guests with their canine “significant others.” Patty Goldstein, who originated the idea of the calendar, joined Sara Davidson, the executive director of the organization, in welcoming Tresa Hall whose firm The Corcoran Group, underwrote the publication of the calendar.

Significant funds were also raised for the rescue of pets in the Gulf Coast cities and towns devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The excellent catering was provided by Vincent Minuto (of Hampton Domestics).

Calendars are available for $25 and can be found in Manhattan at Canine Styles on the Upper East Side, and through ARF, PO Box 901, Wainscott, NY 11975, or by visiting www.ARFHamptons.org.