NEW YORK-SEPTEMBER 16: 2009 Guggenheim International Gala Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum and the Opening of Kandinsky on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York City, NY. Event Chairmen included Richard Armstrong, Art Garfunkel, Sarah Jessica Parker, Maria Baibakova, Isabella and Theodor Dalenson, Danielle Ganek, Amy Phelan and Jacqueline Sackler. Honorary Chairs were Phyllis and William Mack and Jennifer and David Stockman. Corporate sponsor was Deutsche Bank. Guests included: Richard Armstrong, Isabella Rossellini, William Mack, Jennifer Stockman, Maria Baibakova, Frank Stella, Marilyn Minter, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Peter Coffin, Amy Phelan and John Phelan, Danielle and David Ganek, Isabella and Theodor Dalenson, Allison and Howard Lutnick, Larry Gagosian, Ann and Steven Ames, Christina and Robert Baker, Erin Baker, Maria and Bill Bell, Henri Barguirdjian, Debra Black, Henry M. Buhl, Denise and John Calicchio, Rose and Will Cotton, Marieand Carl Gustaf Ehrnrooth, Armand Erpf, Sara Fitzmaurice and Marc Spiegler, Judie and Howard Ganek, Christine and Andy Hall, William Hillman, Sandy Heller, Jill and Peter Kraus, Nancy and Jeffrey Lane, Peter Lawson-Johnston II , Linda Macklowe, Edward Meyer, Cheryl and Michael Minikes, Edward Nahem, Elizabeth Richebourg Rea, Michael B. Robertson, Kara and Steve Ross, Eugene Sadovoy, Stéphane Samuel and Robert M. Rubin, Nina del Rio, Thaddaeus Ropac, Eugene Sadovoy, Denise and Andrew Saul, Lenore and Adam Sender, Per and Helena Skarstedt, Mary Cronson, Norman Peck, Lisa Dennison, Wendy McNeil, and Tom Messer, Anna Pasternak and Mike Starn. There was a special performances of Levels of Nothingness by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a performance installation inspired by Kandinsky’s Yellow Sound (1912). Funds raised from the gala support the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. PHOTO CREDIT: ©Manhattan Society.com 2009 by Gregory Partanio | tel: 718.614.7740 |e-mail: GregPartanio@aol.com