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Milla Jovovich, Kerry Washington, Andie MacDowell, Carol Hamilton, Diane Keaton, Karen Fondu, Linda Evangelista, and Dayle Haddon at the L’Oreal Legends Gala to benefit ovarian cancer research.

Last Thursday, ArtWorks, The Naomi Cohain Foundation hosted its annual Art Auction Benefit; An Event to Help Fund Art Programs for Children with Chronic and Life-Threatening Illnesses. The Auction showcased the photography of ArtWorks' own, Katie Morone, and other works of select acclaimed photographers.

The event was held at Studio 450, 450 West 31st Street, with grand rooftop views of the West Side of Manhattan. The Auction was lighthearted, fun and brilliantly run by Auctioneer Harmer Johnson (former president of the Appraisers Association of America, he is an expert in Antiquities and Tribal Art.)

This annual fundraiser helps ArtWorks to provide children and young adults suffering from chronic and life-threatening illnesses, and their siblings, access to creative and performing arts programs that encourage the use of the creative process as a vehicle for healing, communication, self-expression and personal development. ArtWorks seeks to empower, validate, and honor these children by offering them the hands-on experience and materials with which to create, as well as the opportunity to publicly share their artistic accomplishments.

Founded in 2002, ArtWorks was created by Daniela Mendelsohn, who was inspired by the life of her cousin Naomi Cohain. In July of 1994, at the age of 14, Naomi was diagnosed with bone cancer. With her world suddenly diminished, Naomi found herself separated from friends and extended family. Her creative moments, shared with her art therapist, became more and more significant. Art became an anchor of strength, a vehicle for self-expression, an emotional outlet and a source of comfort. In February of 1995, Naomi passed away at the tender age of 15. Naomi's devotion to the importance of creative expression emphasizes the healing power of the arts. For more information, please visit: www.artworksfoundation.org

Lauren Liss, Candice Diaz, and Nina Smith

Ellen Kinney, Tracey Clifford, and Danielle Fine

Matt Orley, Samantha Florence, Tennille Turner, and Marina Katz

Barry Oberman and Clare Slycell

Diane Fischman and Hope Brown

Al and Amy Reine, Jay and Jennie Takefman, and Danielle and Michael Fine

Kendra Stichler, Mara Chomsky, Bryan VanVelzor, and Chris Brown

Borami Lee, Anthony Cirri, and Mara Chomsky

Stacey Richman, Yosaif Cohain, and Erika Richman

Leslie Mendelsohn, Elana Mendelsohn, Lee Schmicker, and Trish Schmicker

Jeni Bauser and Diane Bernstein

Daniela Mendelsohn and Auctioneer Harmer Johnson

Suzanne Schwechter and Josh Altman

ArtWorks Founder Daniela Mendelsohn

Kim Duncan and Ed Heck

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Last Monday night, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrated the 2008 Guggenheim International Gala, the museum’s premier annual fund-raising event at 7 World Trade Center with cocktails followed by a live auction and dinner catered by Olivier Cheng.

The Gala was chaired by Stephanie Seymour Brant, Janna Bullock, Danielle Ganek, Agnés and Edward Lee, Amy Phelan, Kara and Stephen Ross, Jacqueline Sackler, Pamela Sanders, Jennifer Stockman and Owen Wilson.

This year’s celebration was held Major support was provided by Christie’s, with additional support provided by W Hotels, the Hess Collection, Oronoco and Fuel. More than 500 guests attended and the museum raised $2.4 million.

Honored at the 2008 Guggenheim International Gala were the ten artists whose work comprises theanyspacewhatever, the collaborative, experimental exhibition on view at the Guggenheim Museum this season. These Honorees were: Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Phillippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Danielle Ganek, Amy Phelan, Jennifer Stockman, Bill Mack, Stephanie Seymour Brant, Janna Bullock, Pamela Sanders, and Agnes Lee

The Guggenheim International Gala was designed and produced by David Monn. Graphic design studio M/M (Paris), who has collaborated extensively with many of the artist Honorees participating in theanyspacewhatever exhibition, contributed a raw, urban style to both the invitations and the décor.

Musical group Brightblack Morning Light, performed an extended psychedelic jam. And as a gift from the Guggenheim to its friends and supporters, limited-edition art object entitled Primal Stone by Mariko Mori were given to all guests.

A live auction offered works for bid by major contemporary artists and designers, including a major sculpture from David Altmejd, new portrait painting by Barnaby Furnas, a gold-leaf work on paper by Jim Hodges, a wall piece by Anish Kapoor, a new painting by Karen Kilimnik, a custom portrait by Ryan McGinley, a photograph from a new series by Marilyn Minter, and an opportunity to design and commission a small-scale, fully-inhabitable home by Asymptote architect Hani Rashid.

Christopher Burge and Jennifer Stockman

Agnes Lee and Pamela Sanders

Gina Nanni and Glenn O'Brien

Howard and Allison Lutnick

John and Amy Phelan

Inga Rubenstein and Kim Heirston

Christina and Robert Baker with Phyllis and Bill Mack

Nancy Spector and Michael Gabellini

Andrea Rosen, Philippe Parreno, and Rirkrit Tiravanija

Richard Armstrong, Jennifer Stockman, and Bill Mack

Maurizio Cattelan

Lesley Ma, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Hong Hong Wu

Mariko Mori and Hiroko Onada

Ryan McGinley and Marc Hundley

Stephanie Seymour Brant and Jennifer Stockman

Larry Gagosian, Rachel Feinstein, and John Currin

Philippe Segalot, Florence Segalot, and Peter Brant

The 28th Annual Gala for the Ice Theatre of New York benefit for the Theatre’s Education and Outreach Programming and the 2008-9 performance season was held at the Chelsea Piers. They honored Nancy Kerrigan and the Volunteer Ice Angel Award went to Joan Erdheim.

Founder/Artistic Director of Ice Theatre of New York Moira North, co-chair Curtis McGraw Webster, skating champion Paul Wylie, honoree Nancy Kerrigan, honoree Joan Erdheim, and co-chairs Margaret Rapetti and Nancy Nisonson

Co-chairs for the evening were Nancy Nisonson, Margaret Rapetti and Curtis McGraw Webster. Elizabeth McGraw Webster was Honorary Chair, and Master of Ceremonies for the evening was Paul Wylie.

To learn more about Ice Theatre of New York and its extraordinary work in our community visit their website: www.icetheatre.org.

Craig Cichy, Jamie Marks, and Judi Marks Netter

Chenault Spence, Moira North, and Guido Aren

ITNY Board Member Susan Numeroff, Nancy Kerrigan, and ITNY Board Chair Michel Mercure

ITNY Ensemble Members Joel Dear and Jamie Coffey Reynolds

Paul Wylie, Nancy Kerrigan, and Derrick Delmore with Elizabeth McGraw Webster, Honorary Chair of the event

Nancy Kerrigan and children

Performers at the Ice Theatre of New York's annual gala

Colette House, Karl Cronin, and JoAnna Mendl Shaw with friends

Peter Eurich with Ice Angel Award Recipient Joan Erdheim

Jirina Ribbens and Vera Wang

Surya Bonaly and Douglas Webster

Last Monday night at the American Museum of Natural History, the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (CRF), and L’Oreal Paris hosted the L’Oreal Legends Gala, uniting the beauty, fashion, finance and media industries to raise funds for ovarian cancer research.


	Dinner in the Milstein Hall of Ocean life.

Sherry Lansing, Founder of The Sherry Lansing Foundation and Board Member of “Stand Up To Cancer”, and Richard Baker, Chief Executive Office of NRDC Equity Partners, were honored with The OCRF Legends Award. OCRF Board Member Mindy Gray and Jonathan Gray, Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group, received The Liz Tilberis Humanitarian Award.

L’Oréal Paris spokespeople Linda Evangelista, Dayle Haddon, Milla Jovovich, Diane Keaton, Andie MacDowell and Kerry Washington were joined by L’Oréal Paris President Karen Fondu and Gala Chairs Joseph Campinell, Pamela Fiori, Carol J. Hamilton, Faith Kates Kogan, Jacqui Lividini and Donald Watros to honor Sherry Lansing, Richard Baker and Mindy and Jonathan Gray. Kate Snow hosted the gala.

Additional guests included: Paul Anderson, Glenda Bailey, Sade Baderinaw, Pierce Brosnan, Georgina Chapman and Harvey Weinstein, Keren Craig, Desiree Gruber and Kyle MacLachlan, Tommy Hilfiger, Kelly Rutherford and Molly Sims.

The event raised over $4.3 million dollars.

Andie MacDowell and Rainey Qualley

Diane Keaton

Tommy Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo

Molly Sims

John and Mindy Gray family

Pierce Brosnan

Kate Snow

Karen Fondu, Carol Hamilton, Kate Coates, and Michael Trese

Richard Baker

Michael Trese, Carol Hamilton, and Joe Campinell

Vanessa-Mae

Sharon and Saul Schreiber

Dayle Haddon

Kelly Rutherford

Linda Evangelista

Milla Jovovich

Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber

Keren Craig, Harvey Weinstein, and Georgina Chapman

Sherry Lansing and Kerry Washington

Last Thursday night at the Maya Stendhal Gallery, 545 West 20th Street, they held the opening reception for “Jonas Mekas; Film Stills.” Mr. Mekas has expanded his collection of 40 Film Stills series with a landmark exhibition which will run through February 11, 2009. On view will be Birth of a Nation (2008), a dynamic portrait of the avant-garde film community throughout four decades, Mozart & Wein (2008), a pictorial spotlight of Elvis’s last concert, Velvet Underground (2008) which gives intimate access to the first pubic performance of one of experimental music’s most influential groups, and Summer Haiku: a manifesto (2008) a picturesque work from which Mekas imparts his philosophical views on nature.

Jessie Bunting and friend

Christine and Kevin Kajetzke

David and Sandra Navidi

John Hanhardte, Harry Stendhal, and Brian Newman

Models modeling

Jonas Mekas and Harry Stendhal with their girls

Kate Beal and Elle Burchill

Katrina Calkaite and Asta

Kristina Maca

Maria Novochilova and Harry Stendhal

Scott Strickstein and Anna Bohichik

Kate Murphy

Noah Sudarsky and Debora Warner

Last Tuesday night, Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman hosted an IN-House screening of “The World According To Garp” presented by THE WEEK, sponsored by Rado and HSBC Premier at Soho. Hoffman showcased the film, which co-starred Robin Williams, Glenn Close and John Lithgow as one of the most inspiring film’s of his career.

Glenn Close surprised Hoffman at the screening and shared memories from the making of the movie, which was her first role on the big screen. Guests including Greg Bello, Movies 101 Professor Richard Brown, Annie Churchill, Janna Bullock, Alice Judelson, Emma Snowden Jones, Mark Langrish, Mark W. Smith, Salvatore Strazzullo and Jodie Fanelli, Jon and Michelle Marie Heinemann as well as directors Amos Poe and James Wright took in the film and the newly renovated White Room at Soho House over wine and Svedka cocktails.

The IN-House Series was founded by film producer Katrina Pavlos in 2008 to showcase important films introduced by world famous actors, film makers, designers and artists with an insider’s point of view on new and old films. The impact of the series will be to greatly affect those in need through donations to FilmAid, and to celebrate the power of films to inspire.

The film series benefited FilmAid, a nonprofit organization that uses the power of film to change lives. By screening films to hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people each year, FilmAid promotes health, strengthens communities and enriches the lives of the world's most vulnerable.