On Monday April 27, 2009
El Museo’s
Gala Chairman Yaz and
Valentín
Hernández
and Isabel and Ruben Toledo hosted El Museo’s
Pre Gala cocktail party at Mauboussin to announce
plans for the upcoming El Museo Gala ‘09. From six o’clock
until eight o’clock guests were invited to cocktails and
Mother’s day shopping at the renowned French jeweler
Mauboussin, which recently opened its first flagship store
in the United States. Designed by the Rockwell
Group, guests mingled, and sipped on cocktails as they
shopped throughout the five floors of the boutique
showcasing Mauboussin’s full range of jewelry, watches and
accessories.
As
guests arrived they were greeted on the fourth floor at the
"salon des gourmandises" with a selection of cocktails,
pastries and other delectables made by Bouchon Bakery. El
Museo’s chairman Tony Bechara mingled with designers
Reem Acra, Christian Cota, Gemma Khang, Kai Kuhne, Angel
Sanchez. Guests included Harper’s Bazaar
Editor-in-Chief Glenda Bailey, Mexican super model
Liliana Dominguez, Yanna Avis,
Melissa Berkelhammer,
Geoffrey Bradfield, Christine Cachot, Marjorie Reed Gordon,
Ann Rapp, Samantha Thompson, Richard Turley, Carmen Ana and
Joe Unanue, and George Wayne.
El Museo’s Gala ’09 is
planned for Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at Cipriani 42nd
Street in New York City. In a first-time collaboration,
artist Ruben Toledo, together with children from El Museo’s
Classroom Connections program, will create a whimsical
gallery of 68 portraits, including some of the most famous
faces in Latin American history and culture, as well as
leading Latino New Yorkers. The portraits as well as El
Museo’s limited edition cigars also designed by Ruben Toledo
will be sold at the gala to benefit the museum.
El
Museo del Barrio was founded in 1969, and is New York’s
leading Latino cultural institution, representing the
diversity of art and culture in all of the Caribbean and
Latin America. El Museo has had a significant impact on New
York’s culture, and is a major stop on Manhattan’s Museum
Mile on Fifth Avenue. Currently El Museo is undergoing a
$22 million-dollar facelift, which will be completed this
fall.
I
am including a disk of images from the party, the Gala press
release, and a word document of this letter. Please feel
free to contact me if you would like any more information on
El Museo’s Gala 09.