2011 Gala & Cultural Leadership Awards
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Metropolitan Club
New York City
The American Federation of Arts (AFA) held its 2011 Fall Gala & Cultural Leadership Awards on Wednesday, October 26, at the Metropolitan Club in New York. This year’s honorees were renowned performance artist Marina Abramović and National Gallery of Art Director Earl A. Powell III. Abramović and Powell were introduced and their awards presented by Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and a Chief Curator at Large at the Museum of Modern Art, and Philippe de Montebello, Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums at the Institute of Fine Arts and Director Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, respectively.
The evening began with a cocktail reception, followed by a seated dinner, raffle drawings for a print by April Gornik and a painting by Richard Bell, and dancing and cocktails to conclude the evening. Each guest went home with a fabulous red, custom-edition Moleskine notebook that features excerpts from Abramović’s “An Artist's Life Manifesto” and was designed by Abramović specially for the AFA gala.
Philippe de Montebello, Earl A. Powell III, Marina Abramović, and Klaus Biesenbach
Jonathan Binstock and Kevin Salatino
Marina Abramović and Pauline Willis
Gala Co-Chairs Capera Ryan, Clare McKeon, and Lydia Fenet
Sean Kelly, Marina Abramović, Jason Herrick, and Charlotte Eyerman
Vicky Ward and Robert McKeon
Jeffrey Loewy and Ruth Appelhof
Jason Herrick and Dorothy Kosinski
Frederick and Stephanie Clark
Richard and Barbara Lane, Sandra and Stanford Warshawsky
Clare McKeon, Rose Dergan, Will Cotton, Olivia Chantecaille, and Ren Grady
Michael Solovay and Stephanie La Nasa
Walter W. Timoshuk
Bob and Margot Linton
Liz Klein, Jonathan Binstock, and Naomi Baigell
Georgina Schaeffer and Stephanie Clark
Hugh Chisholm and Daisy Prince
Davin and Ashley Staats
Sloan Overstrom and Caitlin Davis
Jason Herrick and Kimerly Rorschach
Pauline Willis, Earl A. Powell III, and Marina Kellen French
Todd Bishop, Klaus Biesenbach, Lawrence Benenson, Marina Abramović, Tunji Adeniji, Peter Katz, and Rebecca Taylor
Sidney Felsen and Joni Moisant Weyl
Ann and Gilbert Kinney
