IIE
New Leaders Benefit "An Evening of International Celebration" to
raise awareness of the critical importance today of fostering mutual
understanding between the United States and other countries around
the world was held two weeks ago Tuesday at Gotham Hall on Broadway
at 36th Street. The event featured the renowned Fulbright Program,
implemented by the Institute of International Education (IIE) on behalf
of the U.S. Department of State, as well as 25 UN Ambassadors from
many countries.
Corporate Underwriter was Lehman Brothers. Honorary Co-Chair was Dr.
Henry Kissinger. Co-Chairs were Marianne Boesky, owner,
Marianne Boesky Gallery; Peter Elstrom, Senior Editor, Business
Week;Scott Freidheim,
Marc Gabelli, Jonathan Jackson, Serra Kirdar, Doug Londal, Michael
Rockefeller, CEO, Active Media; and Thomas Sandell, CEO,
Sandell Asset Management.
Marc
Gabelli, Jonathan Jackson, Michael Rockefeller, Scott Fredheim,
Serra Kirdar, Doug Londal, Tom Sandell, and Peter Elstrom
More
than 300 leaders in business, education, public policy, media,
philanthropy and the arts attended, including Dr. Kissinger, Ann
Caruso, Scott Freidheim (Global Head of Strategy, Lehman
Brothers), Tara and Michael Rockefeller, Jonathan Jackson, Dr.
Serra Kirdar, Tom Sandell (CEO, Sandell Asset Management), Marc
Gabelli (Managing Director, Gabelli Asset Management, Inc), Peter
Elstrom (Senior Editor, Business Week), Maryam and Nader
Ansary, Peter Gottsegen (Partner CAI Partners), Rich
Goudis (CFO, Herbalife International), Tom Russo (Vice
Chairman and Chief Legal Officer, Lehman Brothers), and United
Nations Ambassadors from more than 15 countries.
Dr. Kissinger presented this inaugural award to current Fulbrighter Diana
Ferrerofor a documentary film project on the hijab in Iran, France,
and the United States.
Bob
Dilenschneider and Steven Uhlfelder
Allan
Goodman, Harriet Fulbright, and Scott Fredheim
Doug
Londal, Marc Gabelli, and Michael Rockefeller
Henry
Jarecki, Allan Goodman, Henry Kissinger, and Steven Uhlfelder
Steven
Uhlfelder, Allan Goodman, Diana Ferrero, Henry Kissinger,
and Scott
Freidheim
Tom
Russo and Margot Steinberg
Rich
Goudi, Harold Levy, Steven Uhlfelder, and Scott Freidhem
Susan
and Peter Gottsegen
Michael
and Tara Rockefeller with Henry Kissinger
Rich
Goudis, Alisa Tugberk, and Brad Thomas
Last
Tuesday, in the Grand Ballroom of The Waldorf=Astoria, Missoni
previewed its Summer 2006 Collection at the 18th Annual Mount
Sinai OB/GYN Fashion Show and Luncheon benefiting the Department
of Obstetrics, Gynecology
and Reproductive Science of the Mount Sinai Medical Center. More than 650 guests
attended including Vittorio Missoni and his son Giacomo and Angela
Missoni and her daughter
Margherita.
Sara
Beaney, Rebecca Shalam, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, and Charlotte
Sprintis
Susan
Fales-Hill, Eileen Guggenheim, and Jane Veronis-Aguado
Judith
Youngwood, Zee Wiener, and Hilary Califano
Co-chair
Daryl Simon, Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics,
Gynecology and Reproductive Science Dr. Michael Brodman,
and co-chair Simone Levinson
Vittorio
Missoni, President and CEO of Mount Sinai Medical Center
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, and Angela Missoni
Jennifer
Peck, Chair of the Friends Executive Committee and
the Renovation Campaign for the Department of OB-GYN and
Reproductive Science at Mount Sinai and co-chair
Daryl Simon
New-York
Historical Society President Louise Mirrer joined
co-chairs Pat Altschul and Melania
Trump in welcoming Vogue editor and fashion
guru, André Leon Talley for an evening
of cocktails and conversation at the New-York Historical Society
on Monday a week ago. The evening included a book signing of
Talley’s new acclaimed memoir A.L.T. and performances
by The Abyssinian Baptist Church Liturgical Dancers, The Riverside
Church Step Dancers and the Harlem Festival Orchestra.
Some notables from the night included N-YHS Board of Trustees Co-Chairs Richard
Gilder and Nancy Newcomb, Donald Trump, Naomi Campbell,
Vera Wang, Damon Dash, Rachel Roy, Somers Farkas, Lois Chiles, Anne Bass,
Vanessa von Bismarck, CeCe Cord, Susan Fales-Hill, Dennis Basso, Behnaz
Sarafpour, Genevieve Jones, and Peter Som.
The evening raised money for New-York Historical Society educational programs.
Andre
Leon Talley and Ava Dash
Dennis
Basso and Ann Caruso
Jonathan
and Somers Farkas
L.
to r.: Genevieve Jones and friends; Vera Wang and
Naomi Campbell.
Damon
Dash, Rachel Roy, Ava Dash, and Andre Leon Talley
Donald
and Melania Trump with Pat Altschul
Andre
Leon Talley, Louise Mirrer, and Lois Chiles
Naomi
Campbell and
Damon Dash
Clockwise
from above, left: Harlem Festival Orchestra;
Richard Gilder and Andre Leon Talley; Naomi
Campbell; Riverside Step Dancers.
Donald
and Melania Trump with Louise Mirrer
Ava
Dash and Rachel Roy
That
same Monday night, Mary Cronson and Works & Process at the Guggenheim presented a special family
holiday benefit. About 180 guests, including 90 children in their
party clothes, attended a special performance of excerpts from George
Balanchine’s The Nutcracker in the Guggenheim’s Theater,
performed by dancers from The New York City Ballet.
Children
marching to The Nutcracker
Following
the performance there was a party on the rotunda floor featuring
dinner and dancing. Produced by Tom Gold, Pierre Dulain led
the children in a very special dance lesson with dancers from
the New York City Ballet.
L.
to r.: Children practice for the march of The
Nutcracker; Lourdes Lopes with daughter Calista Skouras.
Caroline
Cronson and Pierre Dulaine
Fe
Fendi
Tom
Gold with the kiddies
Tom
Gold, Jennifer Chaitman, and Mary Sharp Cronson
Mary
Sharp Cronson, Heather Randall, and Paul Cronson
The Monday before, November 28th,
the First Annual Tretyakov Ball organized by The American Friends of
The Tretyakov Gallery Foundation was hosted at one of the oldest
and the most exclusive private clubs of Manhattan on Fifth Avenue.
It was a glamorous Black Tie night of celebrating the works of Russian
art from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, bringing together
a mix of government officials, patrons, artists and entertainers
to honor Valentin Rodionov, General Director of The State Tretyakov
Gallery and Thomas Krens, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Their objective was to raise money for The American Friends of The
Tretyakov Gallery Foundation.
The Tretyakov Gallery is the largest museum in Moscow which houses
a vast collection of Russian masterpieces from the 13th to the 21st
centuries. Many of the paintings in the exhibition entitled “Russia!” currently
held at the Guggenheim Museum entitled are from the Tretyakov Gallery.
Alexandre Gertsman, President of The American Friends of The Tretyakov
Gallery Foundation, was Benefit Chair. Mr. Gertsman is also Head
of the International Foundation of Russian and Eastern European Art,
sponsor of the “RUSSIA!” exhibition at the Guggenheim
Museum. Lynda Baquero, Anchor of NBC4 News, was Host, and Dr.
Eda Ellis was Benefit Committee Chair.
More than 200 people attended. The sold-out ball was elegantly and
exquisitely designed by Troy Maximus Galy of max.g Design Studio,
with many prominent Russians, Americans and Europeans from the arts,
business, government and foreign affairs; as well as interested patrons,
socialites, celebrities, and artists.
Margaret
Morton, The Honorable Sergei Garmonin, Consul General of
the Russian
Federation in New York, Svetlana Ushakov, Alexandre Gertsman, President
of The American Friends of The Tretyakov Gallery, and Lynda Baquero
Zina
Sapir, Ella Krasner, Kenny Goss, Alexandre Gertsman, and
Dr. Eda Ellis
Denise
Rich, Dr. Robert Holtzman, Nicola Bulgari, Dr. Eda Ellis,
and Erma Eliazov
Alex
Sapir and Bella Sapir
In
the crowd: Denise Rich, Bella and Zina Sapir (both
of whom were also on the Committee for the Ball), Ella
Krasner (Vice-Chair of the Ball’s Committee), Award-winning
architects Massimo and Lella Vignelli; Irina Dvorovenko
and Maxim Belotserkovsky, Principal Dancers of the American
Ballet Theater; Oksana Baiul, Olympic Champion
Figure Skater; Vassily Gerello, Soloist of the
Metropolitan Opera and Bolshoi Theater; Jacob Arabo, known
as Jacob the Jeweler; and the Tretyakov Gallery Directors Lidia
Lovleva, Nina Divova, and Irina Lebedeva. Big
Jazz Band with Valery Ponomarev and singer Hilary
Gardner had entertained throughout the night, and Elena
Evseeva, New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Bolshoi
Theater star, also performed.
There were live and silent auctions conducted by Benjamin Doller of
Sotheby’s and included paintings by major contemporary Russian artist Natalya
Nesterova, Grisha Bruskin, and Komar & Melamid; cruise
in Russia by Russian National Group; vacation package in Barbados by Sotheby’s
Realty; jewelry by Chopard and Alex Soldier Design; furs by Helen Yarmak Fashion
House and Dennis Basso; evening dress by Janine Dray; jewel-encrusted tableware
by Jay Strongwater; appointments and dinners and with celebrities, performers
and designers; luxury items by Valentino, Jimmy Choo, Christian Dior, Missoni
Home, and Swarovski; dinners and spa. They raised over $100,000 for the Tretyakov
Gallery exhibition projects.
The American Friends of The Tretyakov Gallery Foundation presented a gift of
works by major Russian-born artists-photographers Rimma and Valery Gerlovin for
the permanent collection of the Sate Tretyakov Gallery.
Keith
Rubinstein, Bella Sapir, Jacob
Arabo, Lella Vignelli, and Alexandre
Gertsman
Valentin
Rodionov, Thomas Krens, and Alexandre Gertsman
Photographs
by Robert A. Ripps (OBGYN); Virginie Blachere (Nutcracker).
