Scenes from the Hamptons to the Cape

LongHouse Reserve's Summer Gala EXCENTRICA at LongHouse in East Hampton.

Last Saturday afternoon in East Hampton, the LongHouse Reserve hosted its annual Summer Gala in its sculpture garden (16 acres). They honored Laurie Anderson and arts patron Jan Cowles.

Harvey Bernstein, Lukie Bernstein, Ulrike von Lehsten, and Rick Taylor

The proceeds of the Gala will go to support the LongHouse Reserve’s mission to exemplify living with art in all forms which is the mission of its creator, Jack Lenor Larsen.

Karen Kaplan, Maryanna Levine, Mark Levine, Elizabeth Levine, and David Stallbaumer

Robert Rosenkranz, Camille Massey, Lucia Massey, and John Habich

Barbara Slifka and Anthony Coron

Randi and Larry Sheer

Anthony Brigante and Vesna Babic

Kyle Robbins and Maria Pessino

Annaliese Soros and Paul Schenly

Fiona Potter, Nancy Collins, Susan Gilner, and Patricia Durken

Marianne and Jenny Youngberg

Adrienne Bon Haes and Marvin Ross Friedman

Carol and Alex Rosenberg

Eric Fischl, April Gornik, Lucy Winton, Guest, and Bryan Hunt

Dianne B and Manana Freyre

Susan Scriptor and James Di Pasquale

Steve Felsher, Bob Kohutt, and Diane Annis

Philip Van Deusen, Wendy Van Deusen, Vanessa Van Deusen, and Laya Van Deusen

Nemira Gasiunas and Nicholas Lowry

Laurie Anderson

Aya Miyatake and Michael Rosch

Arlene Slavin

Cornelia Randolph and Lawrence Randolph

Jeff Bornstein, Dr. Andre Goy, and Mona Bornstein

Hilda Longinotti, Matko Tomicic, and Fern Mallis

Debra Riese and Hector Ramirez

Dawn Watson and Courtney Radcliffe

Sorib Roshi, Bouzar Jomehri, and Gina Birch

Magdalena von Behr, JosÈ Enrique Maci·n, and Carlos Soto

Guest and Edward Albee

John Driscoll and Marylyn Dintenfass

Patrick Christiano and Ulrike von Lehsten

Yuta Powell and Fabiana Dutesco

Elizabeth and Nico Yektai

Nicole McElroy and Heather Buchanan

Catherine Croner and Miry Park

Tina Piette, Susan Gilner, and Karen Norby

Marcy Epstein and Elise Leve

Nathan Joseph and Julie Keys

Richard Meier and friend

Gordon and Amanda Bowling

Michael Sonnenfeld and Shail Upadhya

Meanwhile up on the Cape in Dennis, the Cape Cod Museum of Art recently exhibited a show of the Photography Collection of Christopher Hyland. The exhibit is called “By Way of These Eyes: The Sublime, Exotic and Familiar.”

The curator was Michael Giaquinto and the exhibition features works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Weston, Sally Man, Paul Strand, Mario Neto, Michael Wolf, Bill Armstrong, David Sitbon, Herb Ritts, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sarah Hart, Andre Kertesz, Marcus Leatherdale and Edward Steichen.

Last week the museum’s director Elizabeth Ives Hunter as well as President Thomas Lucey, Vice President Thomas George and also US Trust Bank of America hosted a cocktail reception for the collector and the collection. More than 250 attended. Mr. Hyland presented the museum with “Evening Amber” a painting by Cape Cod artist Matthew Schulz in memory of his mother, Mrs. Samuel Francis Hyland.

Michael Giaquinto and Elizabeth Ives Hunter unveil “Sea Food” by David Sitbon

Michael Giaquinto and Si Hyland unveil “Evening Amber” by Matthew Schulz

Si and Danielle Hyland from Delaware with their baby Samuel, Elizabeth Ives Hunter (Director of Cape Cod Museum of Art), and Christopher Hyland

Ann Limberg, Christopher Hyland, and Gwen Dadoly of Yarmouth Port (U.S. Trust Bank of America)

Kellie McLaughlin and Paul Colarusso From Aperture, NY

Sharon and Henry Martin from Harwich

Alice George and Charlotte Benner of Yarmouth Port, Kathy Goddard of Eastham, and Bill Hatfied
of Providence RI

Pat Barnhart of Yarmouth Port, Joanna Virden, and Jan and Steve Michell of Chatham

Priscilla and Parker Chick of Chatham

Anne and Joanne Snyder of Eastham with Diane Salomone of Brewster and Michele Giovannini
of Bridgewater

Michael Giaquinto, Exhibitions Curator

Karen and Don Megathlin of Cotuit with Tom Lucey (Cape Cod Museum of Art President) and Caroline Lucey of Harwichport

Andrew Singer and Pat Barnhart of Yarmouth Port, Christopher Hyland, David and Nancy Kaplin of Dennis Village with Debbie and Jerry Forman of Brewster

Si Hyland, Constantino Castellano, Danielle Hyland, Christopher Hyland holding baby Samuel, Sally, George and Sally Edmonds of Osterville

Rebecca Pierce-Merrick and Mriam Talanian of West Barnstable

Caryle Connelly, Joseph Russo, and Kim Barnolky-Grossman of Osterville

Rodney DeJong and Michael Levinson of NY

Tom Combhard, Constatino Castellano, Christopher Hyland with Hudson, David Sitbon, and Solene Delobello

The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic held their 6th annual celebration of ideas with the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival from July 5 through the 11th in Aspen. More than 250 leaders from the fields of arts, science, culture, technology, religion, philosophy, business, economics, and politics —from across the country and around the world — spoke about “exploring ideas, deepening dialogue, and inspiring action.”

Speakers included: Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-Chair DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg; Twitter Co-Founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams; United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba; Author John Kao; Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour; National Institute for Play President Stuart Brown; former President of Mexico Vicente Fox; former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor; US Attorney General Eric Holder; Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer David Hume Kennerly; Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist; AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka; White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag; Sir Nigel Crisp; US Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas Donohue; Allstate CEO Thomas J. Wilson; Playwright and Actress Anna Deavere Smith; Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant; WNBA’s Washington Mystics Owner Sheila Johnson; Shell President Marvin Odum; and sculptor Guy Dill and author Tobias Wolff, who will also serve as the Institute’s 2010 Harman-Eisner Artists-in-Residence.

Among the journalists and television journalists attending were: Fred Barnes, Maria Bartiromo, Elisabeth Bumiller, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Clive Crook, E.J. Dionne Jr., James Fallows, Tom Friedman, Jeffrey Goldberg, Sylvie Kauffmann, Katty Kay, Nicholas Kristof, Andrea Mitchell, Peggy Noonan, Kai Ryssdal, Bob Schieffer, and Tavis Smiley.