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WHO:
Patti Smith
performed, with Caroline Jones
opening, as part of a benefit concert for
the American Folk Art Museum.
Guests in
attendance included Betsey Johnson, Jeff
Koons, Ruben and Isabel Toledo, Ryan
McGinley, Moises de la Renta, Leigh Keno,
Steven Sebring (director of Patti Smith:
Dream of Life), Glenda Bailey, Wendy
Diamond, Micah Jesse, Ulla Van Zeller,
Valerie Steele, Edward Mapplethorp, Sam
Baron (Fabrica Designer) and
Petra Levin (former Miss Germany).
The benefit’s chairmen are
Lawrence B. Benenson, Peyton Cochran,
Petra and Stephen Levin, and Ian
Tobin. The Benefit Vice-Chairs include:
Melinda Anderson, Barry D. Briskin, Joan
Juliet Buck, Ken Copeland, Randall Fenlon,
Henry Grimball, Alex Hahn, Michel Heredia,
Elizabeth E. Jacoby, Luise and Robert
Kleinberg, Taryn and Mark Leavitt, Jessica
London, Frances S. Martinson, Gillian
McCain, Angela and Selig Sacks, Amanda
Salvaggio, Amanda Smeal, Sarah Sperling,
Samantha Thompson, Michael Trese, Wayne
Verspoor, and
Jason Whalen.
Event
production by JKS Events.
Art In America
and Fabrica generously sponsored the
event.
WHAT:
Patti Smith performed live to
celebrate Henry Darger’s birthday in a
benefit concert for the American Folk Art
Museum. Caroline Jones opened. An aerial
performance by Cirque-tacular Entertainment
and dancing and DJ were all part of the
glamorous evening.
Henry Darger
(1892-1973), an American artist from
Chicago, created a fantasy world through his
writings and scroll-like paintings and is
considered one of the most notable artists
of the twentieth century.
The American
Folk Art Museum is home to the largest
public repository of works by Henry
Darger and the nation’s premier
institution dedicated to the work of
contemporary self-taught artists as well as
traditional folk artists. An accomplished
and prolific writer and artist, Darger
created a fantasy world through his
manuscripts and illustrations and is today
considered one of the notable masters of the
twentieth century. The American Folk Art
Museum is also celebrating Henry Darger’s
birthday with the exhibition “The Private
Collection of Henry Darger” on view through
19 September 2010.
The American
Folk Art Museum, founded in 1961, is home to
one of the world's preeminent collections of
folk art dating from the 18th century to the
present day, including soaring weathervanes,
dazzling quilts, handsome portraits, and
exuberantly painted furniture as well as
mythic watercolors and idiosyncratic
drawings, paintings, and sculptures by
contemporary self-taught artists from the
U.S and abroad.
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