Then it was on into the cocktail tent where the elegantly be-gowned and be-jeweled ladies swirled around with their equally vibrantly attired gents, champagne flutes in hand, greeting old friends and making new ones. The Mid-Summer party is always the perfect mix of art world titans, entertainers, fashion heavyweights, social dynamos and Wall Street power players so the room was abuzz as a bee-hive. Smiling for the photogs were such as philanthropists Jean & Martin Shafiroff, , collectors Beth Rudin DeWoody and son Carlton DeWoody, Andrea & Mark Glimcher, artists April Gornik & Eric Fischl,   Lucy Puig & Jose Pincay, designer Berry Brown, Broadway producers Stewart Lane (in a   paisley Lily Pulitzer suit) and Bonnie Comley, publisher Jason Binn, Bruce & Avis Richards, Frances Hayward, Mildred C. Brinn, Patricia Duff, Patty Raynes, Donna & Richard Soloway, Tripoli Patterson & Jackie McKay,  Susan Madonia, Stacy Engman, Liliana Cavendish, Edmundo Dimundo, Yung Hee Kim, Sara Herbert Galloway, John Wegorzewski & Edward Callaghan, Gregory D'Elia, Helen Sandrow, Anke Jackson, , Fitz Ism,  Robin Cofer & Domenick D'Alleva, Nazee & Joseph Moinian, Sharon Bush, Roman & Dushy Roth, Geoffrey Bradfield & Roric Tobin, Whitney Fairchild, Dr. Neil Sadick, Ryan & Heather Ross, Dr. Heidi Waldorf, Dr. Erin Gilbert,  Alexandra Fairweather, Dr. Frank & Myra Weiser, Ivy Winick & Ken Dressler, Joan Macri & Paul Anthony.

During the elegant dinner prepared by Glorious Food that began with a papaya stuffed with shrimp, melon & hearts of palm in lime cilantro sauce followed by grilled tournedos of beef with a purée of potato and carrot, Parrish Museum Executive Director & guiding force  for the new museum, Terrie Sultan took to the stage to honor seven �unique creative forces on the East End that included director & choreographer Patricia Birch, artist Chuck Close, author/historian Barbara Goldsmith, interior designers Tony Ingrao and Randy Kemper, musician G.E. Smith (whose wife accepted his award), and choreographer Paul Taylor. Presenting them with huge white bouquets, Sultan said, �We hope that you think the new Parrish Art museum is the next great landmark of New York.