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 New seasons to celebrate
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A performance by Mai Ueda at Freight + Volume gallery in Chelsea. |
This past Tuesday night in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum (known locally as LACMA) was the site of a party hosted by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter in honor of LACMA trustee Wendy Stark Morrissey (who is the Los Angeles editor to VF) at the museum’s new restaurant and bar. The restaurant is named Ray’s, after Ray Stark, Wendy’s father and the late film producer known for such works as Funny Girl and Steel Magnolias.
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| Graydon Carter, Wendy Stark Morrissey, and Terry Semel |
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| Anne Kreamer, Kurt Andersen, and Arianna Huffington |
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Ray Stark was a LACMA Trustee, as is his daughter who currently sits on the board. Executive Chef Kris Morningstar, who was most recently Executive Chef at District and Mercantile, and prior to that worked at such top L.A. establishments as AOC, Patina, and Blue Velvet, presided over the kitchen. The restaurant and bar names honor gifts to LACMA’s Transformation campaign from The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, through the generosity of museum trustee Wendy Stark Morrissey. The bar is aptly titled the Stark Bar.
Among those attending were, of course, LACMA Director Michael Govan and his wife Katherine Ross as well as Suzanne Saperstein who donated generously towards the acquisition of the Kamer/Ruf costume collection (currently on view in the Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915), a transformative addition to LACMA’s permanent collection.
Also: Ed Ruscha, the internationally renowned L.A. artist was there as was Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Betsy Bloomingdale, Arianna Huffington, Peter and Jamee Gregory, Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel, Mamie Gummer and Ben Walker, Michael and Jane Eisner, Irwin and Margo Winkler, Julian Sands and Evgenia Citkowitz, Selim Zilkha and Mary Hayley, Irena Medavoy, Kurt Andersen and Anne Kreamer, and of course, Graydon Carter and his wife, Anna Scott Carter.
Ray’s provided the food which included ahi tuna with jardinière olive salad, crispy confit potatoes with local goat cheese and chives, sweet peppers stuffed with chorizo and almond sauce, cannellini beans with wilted beets greens, pickled fresnos and local olive oil on house bread, mushroom, sage truffle cheese flatbread, etc. The food was fabulous! |
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Brie Larson and Sarah Ramos |
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Whitney Able and Azita Ghanizada |
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Jacqueline Bisset and Darren Ramirez |
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Victoria Brynner, Laura Cunningham, and Fred Jones |
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Joan Collins and Percy Gibson |
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Amy Ephron, Diane von Furstenberg, and Alana Stewart |
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Wendy Stark Morrissey and Allison Gorsuch |
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Fiona Lewis, Alex Hitz and Marin Hopper |
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A. Scott Berg |
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Alan Finklestein and Angela Janklow |
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Mitch Glazer |
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Kris Morningstar, Greg Wiele, Wendy Stark Morrissey, Joachim Splichal, and Betsy Bloomingdale |
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Eric Charbonneau and Erica Mueller |
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Lynn Collins |
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Lisa Eisner and Krista Smith |
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Barry Diller |
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Andrea Aberegg |
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Andrew Saffir, Katherine Ross, Daniel Benedict, and Ari Graynor |
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Heather Wilson |
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Michael Govan and Lynda Resnick |
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Barry Frediani and Wanda McDaniel |
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Angela Janklow and Jeff Stein |
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Stavros Merjos and Alan Finklestein |
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Tim O'Shea and Barbara Pflaumer |
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Ben Walker and Mamie Gummer |
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Eva Chow and Cynthia Yorkin |
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Colleen Camp and Punch Hutton |
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Brian Grazer and Carly Craig |
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Veronique Peck, Tony Peck, and Paula Rice |
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Katherine Ross and Anna Carter |
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Dasha Zhukova |
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Harry and Florence Sloan |
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Jamie McCourt |
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Arnold Kopelson, Alan Hamel, and Suzanne Somers |
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Jacqueline Bisset and Margo Winkler |
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Irena Medavoy |
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Susan and Jerry Weintraub |
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Julian Sands |
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Ed and Danna Ruscha |
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Stephanie Barron and Melody Kanschat |
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Nick Berggruen and Arianna Huffington |
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Dani Janssen and Lynda Resnick |
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Devaughn Nixon and Lorenzo Eduardo |
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Marc Mani and Suzanne Saperstein |
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John Burnham, Michael Eisner, and Jane Eisner |
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Jamee Gregory, Peter Gregory, and Wendy Goldberg |
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Marc and Jane Nathanson |
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Tessa Thompson and Jesse Nolan |
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Matt Ullian and David Foxley |
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| The Paul Taylor Dance Company opened its new season on Tuesday night with a gala performance at City Center, followed by a dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street. |
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| The dinner scene |
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| A table setting |
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| Eran Bugge, Robert Kleinendorst, James Samson, and Amy Fleet |
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| Betsy Whitters and Norton Belknap |
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| Paul Taylor Dancers |
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| Denise Hurlin Roberts and Damian Woetzel |
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| Michael Novak, Eileen Roehl, and Michael Apuzzo |
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| Nicholas Gulde, Henry Butler, Melinda Krasting, and Michael Sottile |
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| Richard Feldman and Judy Kinberg |
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| Judith Selkowitz and Betsy Whitters |
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| Mary Ann Beyington, Rosario Perez, and Larry and Mary McAffrey |
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| Maryann Kinkead and Jordan Kinkead |
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| Ray Bragar and Robin Hertz |
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| Roberta and Michael Cook |
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| Eileen Robert and Charles Curkin |
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| Sean Mahoney, Amy Young, Jody Arnhold, Michelle Fleet, and Michael Trusnovec |
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| Maryann Kinkead and Frank Ellsworth |
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| Barbara Kowalski and Michael Kowalski |
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| Bjarne Rieber and Yvonne Rieber |
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| Beverly D'Anne and Guy Mognaz |
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| Ariane Reinhart, Lisa Arbisser, Carolyn Adams, Joan Bowman, and Yvonne Rieber |
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| Ken Garen and Christine Sisley |
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| John and RoAnnCostin |
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| Parissa Khobdeh and Holden Kellerhals |
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| David Nadler and Bonnie Pfeifer Evans |
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| Palencia Turner, Kirstin Ellsworth, Ken Garen, and Christine Sisley |
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| Darcy Gilpin and Rachel Berman |
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| Mary Beth Alberlin and Larry McCaffrey |
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| Michael Trusnovec, Paul Taylor, and Damian Woetzel |
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| Lucy Lang and Scott Asher |
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| John McErnan and Mary Belknap |
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| Hugh Hildesley |
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| Kipton Cronkite |
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| Last Friday night at Freight + Volume, the gallery at 530 West 24th Street and 10th Avenue, Richard Butler opened his show: hyprochondriacattegramercyparkhotel, along with a performance and a video project by Mai Ueda titled Bird Choir. |
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Anabel Murillo and Michael Felder |
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Kevin Kay, Mai Ueda, Nick Lawrence, and Richard Butler |
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Bodo Korsig and Ann Marlowe |
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Adina Popescu and Carlos Soto |
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Annie Walker, Jagger James, and Anna Valencia |
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Anthony Haden-Guest and Nick Lawrence |
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Asuka Nakamura and Chris Romeo |
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Greg Land, Jules Watson, Erika Anderson, and Joe Watson |
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Cipriana Quann and Nikisha Riley |
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Dana Balicki and Nick Lawrence |
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Cindy Hetzel and Alex Ogle |
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Daniel Haiter and Maria-Theresia |
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Maggie Butler and Richard Butler |
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Emilio Steinberger |
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Koubadja Abdel-Quteer |
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Ying Yue Li and Curt Goodwin |
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Diane Schmit and Eun Hye |
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Eric Gleason, Tom Sanford, and Ryan Schnieder |
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Hye Rim Lee and Julie Bills |
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Ellen To, Edwin Chong, and Geraldine Chung |
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Heather Lilleston and Ying Yue Li |
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John McKay, Haywood, and Jessica Riccardi |
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Emilya Naymark and Samantha Keely Smith |
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Kai Brambilla and Marco Brambilla |
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Marcus Burrowes and Amhara Rein |
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Yuko Torihara and Daphane Park |
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Lance Rautzhan, Megan Ronney, and Gordon Austin |
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Ying Yue Li and Nick Atkinson |
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Nadia Sinno, Madeline Butcher, and Stephanie Knight |
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Elle Muliarchyk |
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Samantha Rex, Jessica Riccardi, and Cindy Hetzel |
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Jimmy Bruch and Jagger James |
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Ying Yue Li and Peter Makebish |
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Hanne Lauritsen and Gi Gi |
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Emma Garrity and Maggie Butler |
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Ann Marlowe, Jack Dempsey, and Steve Zimmer |
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AJ Mason and Jonas Mason |
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