EJ - New Museum of Contemporary Art's Annual Gala and Live Auction
Jean
and Live Auction on Sunday, April 17, 2004, at the newly reopened
Cipriani Wall Street at 55 Wall Street. Sir Elton John will serve as
Honorary Chair for the event, which will honor Cindy Sherman, one of
the world's leading visual artists. Renowned film director and
photographer John Waters will pay tribute to Cindy in a special
introduction. The Co-Chairs for the event are Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
and Nicolas Rohatyn.
The Annual Gala and Live Auction is a great opportunity for
contemporary art lovers to support the New Museum, which is breaking
ground this year for a new home on the Bowery, and is one of the
liveliest events of the season. As in past years, this year's dinner
will be followed by a live auction of artwork by top contemporary
artists. All of the works included in the auction will be on view at
the New Museum at 556 West 22nd Street and at www.newmuseum.org from
April 9-16, 2005. The Live Auction will be conducted by Simon de Pury,
Chairman of Phillips, de Pury & Company. Bloomberg is the Presenting
Sponsor of the 2005 Gala and Live Auction.
The Honorary Committee for the event includes Sarah Charlesworth,
Gregory Crewdson, Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons, Yvonne Force and
Leo Villareal, Jenny Holzer, Sue Hostetler, Marc Jacobs, Louise Lawler,
Dominique Lévy and Dorothy Berwin, Maya Lin and Daniel Wolf, Ninah and
Michael Lynne, Martin Margulies, Jennifer McSweeney and Peter Reuss,
Metro Pictures, Carolina Nitsch and Dieter von Graffenreid, Nessia
Pope, Aby J. Rosen, Per and Helena Skarstedt and Neda Young. The Art
Committee is chaired by Nancy Portnoy and also includes Gavin Brown,
Mary Boone, Ellyn Dennison, Corinna Durland, Ellen Kern, Rachel
Lehmann, Toby Devan Lewis, David Maupin and Perry Rubenstein, among
others.
The thirteen works included in the Live Auction are by Louise
Bourgeois, Karin Davie, Verne Dawson, Peter Hujar, Glenn Ligon, Robert
Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, Donald Moffett, Yasumasa Morimura, Robin
Rhode, Yinka Shonibare, Jennifer Steinkamp and Sue Williams.
By turning the camera on herself, Cindy Sherman has become one of the
most respected artists alive. Although she plays a starring role in the
majority of her photographs, they are most definitely not
self-portraits. Rather, Sherman uses herself as a vehicle to explore a
variety of issues and themes in the modern world. It is through her
consistent and astonishing work that she has contrived to raise
challenging and important questions about the role and representation
of women in society, the media, the status of photography and the
nature of the creation of art. Sherman's work has been featured in
museums and galleries around the world.
The monumental career of international singer/songwriter and performer
Sir Elton John has spanned more than three decades. He is one of the
top-selling solo artists of all time with over 200 million records sold
worldwide. Sir Elton has won a wide array of industry awards including
Grammys, Tonys and an Oscar and continues to add innovative work to his
personal repertoire of 35 gold and 25 platinum albums. In December of
2004, Sir Elton received the Kennedy Center Honor for his lifetime
contributions to American culture and excellence through the performing
arts. His commitment to the fight against AIDS led to the inception of
the Elton John AIDS Foundation (Los Angeles and London) which has
dispersed a combined total of grants surpassing $50 million to date
making the Elton John Aids Foundation one of the largest public
non-profit organizations in the AIDS arena. In 1998, he was knighted by
the Queen of England who honored him with the title Sir Elton John,
CBE. Sir Elton John has one of the leading private collections of
vintage modernist and contemporary photographs in the world.
John Waters emerged as a controversial filmmaker in the late 1960's,
when he began producing short films with an entourage of actors and
crew known as Dreamland Studios, a diverse group that characterized the
marginalized figures of society highlighted in Waters's films. His
exaggerated but loving depiction of people living on the fringes of
normal American life persisted well into the 1980's and 1990's,
when he began producing popular films such as of Hairspray and Serial
Mom. In addition to making films and artworks, Waters has contributed
essays and articles to national publications and has published five
books. His photographic works were the subject of an exhibition at the
New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2004.
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Steven de Mena
anything?
"Jean" <gat...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Jean
John" and he has that week off from performing, so I would say he'd be
there.
Steven de Mena
> Their web site says " Annual Gala and Live Auction Hosted by Sir Elton
> John" and he has that week off from performing, so I would say he'd be
> there.
>
That sounds nice.
Jean
Jean
Elton in New York for Art Tribute
12-April-2005
On Sunday April 17 Elton will serve as Honorary Chair for New York's
New Museum of Contemporary Art at their Annual Gala and Live Auction.
This will take place at 7pm at Cipriani, Wall Street, NY. The event
will honour Cindy Sherman, one of the world's leading artists.