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You better watch out,
You better not cry,
You better not pout,
I’m telling you why . . .
Santa Claus is coming to town.
Well, Santa Claus finally came to town and one place where he stopped
in at was Doubles last Wednesday afternoon where he was greeted by
the most adorable and best dressed little tikes and and their parents,
grandparents, godparents and aunts and uncles, including Bracie,
Ashleigh and Muffie Potter Aston (the twins
will be a year old in a couple weeks and they are as pretty as their
mom); former Governor
Hugh Carey and clan; Clo Cohen with
her sister and family; Luke,
Jamie and Lauren Thierry Watkins; Tatiana and Alexandra Mandis; Allegra
and Christine Cachot Williams; Sabrina, Preston, Catharine, Jeffrey
and Daisy Soros; Aubrienne, Susan Krysiewicz, and Tom
Bell; Gabriella and Nina Rennert Davidson; Gillian and Sylvester
Miniter; Alexandra
and Lara Glazier; as well as families of Flynns,
Gorrivans, Thomas’s,
Landeggers, Boncompagnis, and Izmirlians, tumbling
on down the magic red carpeted staircase into what the club’s
Guiding Light Wendy Carduner calls Doubles’ Little Miracle
on 59th Street. See for yourselves. |
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Muffie
Potter Aston with Ashleigh and Bracie
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The
Gorrivans
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Santa
with Christine and Allegra
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Tatiana
and Enrico
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The
Careys
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The
Soros family
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L.
to r.: The extended Carey family; The Miniters.
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The
Izmirlians
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The
Watkins
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Santa
and Twin Boys
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The
Flynns
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Little
Christmas Tree Cheeks
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Clo
Cohen
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Santa
and Tatiana
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The
Sargents
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A paparazzi
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The
Davidsons
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The
Bells
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The
Landeggers
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Tatiana
and Alexandra
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The
SculptureCenter held its annual Winter Gala earlier
this month at the SculptureCenter’s steel and brick exhibition
space renovated by sculptor and architect Maya Lin, and
honored Jeff Koons for his outstanding contributions
to the field of contemporary sculpture. Larry Gagosian,
Antonio Homem, Ileana Sonnabend, Peter Stevens, and The
Broad Art Foundation hosted the event.
Renowned art
historian Robert Rosenblum paid tribute to Koons
by speaking of a few of the many accomplishments of the man’s
astounding career.
Proceeds from the Winter Gala will support SculptureCenter’s adventurous
exhibition program whose recent highlights include an energetic survey
of contemporary sculpture in New York titled Make It Now and a
retrospective of American artist Petah Coyne.
The Winter Gala has received tremendous support from its esteemed Host
Committee including Beth Rudin DeWoody, Andrea and Marc Glimcher,
Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Kim M. Heirston, Iman and David Bowie, Stella
McCartney, Alberto Mugrabi, Samantha and Aby Rosen, Jerry I. Speyer, and
The Peter and Stephanie Brant Foundation.
The Benefit Committee also reads as an art world and society who’s
who including Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, Jeffrey Deitch, Ellyn
and Saul Dennison, Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Gladstone Gallery, Jane Holzer,
Yung Hee Kim, Emily Fisher Landau, Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin, Glenn
D. Lowry, Tom Otterness and Coleen Fitzgibbon, Ann Philbin, Muiccia Prada,
David Salle, Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Inc., Joel
Shapiro, Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner, Fred Wilson, and Andrea
Woodner.
Once one of New York’s best-kept secrets, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit
arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments
in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents
exhibitions by emerging and established, national and international artists
and has quickly become one of New York’s most exciting venues for
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Larry
Gagosian and Eli Broad with a friend
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Shannon
Fox with Justine and Jeff Koons
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Alan
Brill and Brendan Banahan
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Anne
Bodner, Jim Bodner, Peter Stevens, and Annie Philbin
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Libby
and David Mugrabi
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Leslie
Samuels and Agusta Gross
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Wiesje
van Hustle and Fred Wilson
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Eli
Broad and Stephanie Seymour
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Beth
Rudin DeWoody, Charlie Scheips, and Joanne Cassullo
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Fred
Wilson, Barbara Hoffman, and Whitfield Lowell
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Peter
Brant and Larry Gagosian
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Roger
Waters, Kim Heirston Evans, and Chris del Gatto
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Ann
and Lee Sensterstock
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Yung
Hee Kim and Armand Bartos
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Annie
Philbin and Mary Ceruti
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Lisa
Perry
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Diane
Ackerman and Arnold Lehman
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Angela
Ismailos and Kim Heirston
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Richard
Evans and Elsa Ross Greifinges
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Anthony
Huberman and Michelle Snyder
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Mary
Ceruti and Elsa Ross Greifinges
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Thea
Westreich
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Russian Consulate held its Christmas gala where
they honored Peter
Gelb, General
Manager-Elect of The Metropolitan Opera. Guests enjoyed performances
by tenor Marcello Giordano, soprano Sondra
Radvanovsky, and Paul Sorvino (he's a
tenor, in case you're wondering). Other notable guests included pianist
and composer Richard Nanes, Consul
General Sergey Garmonin, Permanent
Representative to the United Nations Andrey Denisov,
LeRoy Neiman, and former
Miss Russia Anna Malova. What did they drink you
ask? VODKA; which kept aflowing thanks to the evening's sponsor
Stolichnaya elit. |
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Andrew
and Harriette Greatrex
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Yvone
Schley
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Olga
Makarina, Raul Mello, and Anna Maria Marti
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Tamir
Sapir and fiancée
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Anna
Malova and Paul
Sorvino
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Richard
Nanes with Stolichnaya elit Butler
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Golden
Rooster Children's Ensemble
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Sergey
Garmonin,
Philip Rybin, Diana Corto-Stomsvik, and Dr. Lev Paukman
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Christiana
Michaels, Sergey Garmoni, Diana Corto-Stomsvik, and friend
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Kseniya
Smirnova, Yana Miroshina, and Alexander Kalachev
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LeRoy
Neiman and Stacey Casper
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Paul
Sorvino, Stacey Casper, and Stolichnaya elit Butler
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| Photographs
by Cutty McGill (Doubles); Joe Schildhorn/©Patrick McMullan
(SculptureCenter). |
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