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American Federation of Arts 2017 Spring Luncheon |
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Jeff Koons, Pauline Willis, Director of the American Federation
of Arts, and Scott Rothkopf, Deputy
Director for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief
Curator at the Museum of American Art.
Photo: Sylvain Gaboury/PMC ©Patrick
McMullan
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American Federation of Arts 2017 Spring Luncheon
JW Marriott Essex House, 160 Central Park South
May 17, 2017
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This year’s AFA Spring Luncheon held on May 17 at
the Grand Salon of the JW Marriott Essex House in Central Park
South welcomed over 240 guests.
The event featured world-renowned artist Jeff Koons in
conversation with Scott Rothkopf, Deputy Director for Programs
and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator at the Museum of
American Art. Rothkopf was the curator of Jeff Koons: A
Retrospective, a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum that
later traveled to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the
Guggenheim Bilbao.
Together they spoke about Koons’s work, his inspiration in
Philosophy and Metaphysics, and his view of art as a continuum,
in which one artist learns from an earlier artist and in turn
influences the coming generations. About this idea, Koons
stated, “It’s this type of connectivity, this humanism that I’m
interested in.”
CHAIR Clare McKeon CO-CHAIRS Elizabeth Belfer, Stephanie
Borynack Clark, Charlotte Eyerman, Ashleigh Fernandez, Lee White
Galvis, Merrill Mahan, Jennifer New, Capera Ryan, Jennifer
Wright
THE AFA The American Federation of Arts is the leader in
traveling exhibitions internationally. A nonprofit organization
founded in 1909, the AFA is dedicated to enriching the public’s
experience and understanding of the visual arts through
organizing and touring art exhibitions for presentation in
museums around the world, publishing exhibition catalogues
featuring important scholarly research, and developing
educational programs. |
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