60th Anniversary Gala
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2023
POWERHOUSE ARTS, BROOKLYN, NY
SIXTY YEARS: ARTISTS FOR ARTISTS
AN EVENING TO BENEFIT THE FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
A once in a decade celebration
HONORARY CO-CHAIRS
Agnes Gund and Jasper Johns
POWERHOUSE ARTS
322 THIRD AVENUE
BROOKLYN, NY 11215
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2023
LEAD PARTNERS, ARTISTIC PROGRAM
A G Foundation (Agnes Gund) and Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
Cocktails: 6:30 pm
Dinner: 8:00 pm
Not black tie
EMCEES
John Kelly, Early Grantee and Emergency Grants Recipient
Autumn Knight, 2022 Grantee
PERFORMANCES
An excerpt from Merce Cunningham's Landrover (1972)
Performed by Chalvar Monteiro and Jacquelin Harris
silver through the grass like nothing, 2023 (World Premiere)
Composed and performed by eddy kwon, 2023 FCA Robert Rauschenberg Awardee
MUSIC CURATED BY
David Grubbs, 2006 Grantee
For more information contact: Kathleen Flynn, Deputy Director at kf@contemporary-arts.org, or 212-807-7077.
Co-Chairs:
Sarah Arison
Wendy Waldron Brandow
Sherri Crichton
Anne Dias Griffin
Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman
Marguerite Steed Hoffman
Thelma and AC Hudgins
Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Emily and Mitch Rales
Artist Committee:
Cecily Brown, Co-Chair
Vija Celmins
Anne Collier, Co-Chair
Sonia Louise Davis
Robert Gober
Wade Guyton
Jennie C. Jones, Co-Chair
Wyatt Kahn
Glenn Ligon
Richard Maxwell
Julie Mehretu
Dean Moss, Co-Chair
Fred Moten
Zeena Parkins
Ellen Phelan and Joel Shapiro
Pam Tanowitz
Benefit Committee as of September 20, 2023
Jubilee Celebrants
Sarah Arison
Anne Dias Griffin
Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman
Larry Gagosian
Marguerite Steed Hoffman
Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
Matthew Marks and Jack Bankowsky
Emily and Mitch Rales
Jack Shear
Benefactors
Anonymous (Two)
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Sherri Crichton
Gladstone Gallery
Hauser & Wirth
Thelma and AC Hudgins
Judy and Leonard Lauder
Patrons
Anonymous (Two)
Lawrence and Elyse Benenson
Stefania Bortolami / Bortolami Gallery
Paula Cooper
David Dechman and Michel Mercure
Paul Dierkes
Anne and Joel S. Ehrenkranz
Katherine Farley and Jerry Speyer
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
Kathy and Richard Fuld
GRAY Gallery
Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker
Jeanette Lerman Neubauer and Joseph Neubauer
Joan Rechnitz
Meredith and Conley Rollins
Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg
Sotheby's
Anniversary Committee
The Estate of Brooke Alexander
Douglas Baxter
Bettina S. Bryant
The Broad Art Foundation
Mary Byrd
Amy Cappellazzo
Barbara Bertozzi Castelli
James Cohan
Anthony B. Creamer III
Merce Cunningham Trust
Gabriella De Ferrari
The Destina Foundation / The Dorothea Tanning Foundation
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Fiona and Mark Donovan
Eva and Glenn Dubin
Fagenson Family Foundation
Vincent and Shelly Fremont
Glenn and Cynthia Frey Foundation
Sara Friedlander
Kate Ganz and Daniel Belin
Tony and Gail Ganz
Stacy Goergen
Carin Gerard
Robert Gober
Alexander Grey Associates
Grossman LLP
Mimi and Peter Haas Fund
Deana Haggag and Dominic Leong
Sandy Heller
Steve Henry and Philip Shneidman
Sharon Coplan Hurowitz
Bree Jeppson
Lana Jokel
Megan Fox Kelly
John B. Koegel
Krakow Witkin Gallery
James Lapine
Raymond Learsy
Paul Leong
Dominique Lévy / Lévy, Gorvy, Dayan
Susan Lorence
Ninah Lynne
Christophe Mao
Hannah Mensch
Richard and Ronay Menschel
Robert Mnuchin
Laura Paulson and Andrew Fabricant
Joanna Pousette-Dart
The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation
Romenesa Foundation
Deedie Rose
Donna Perret Rosen and Benjamin M. Rosen
Rebecca Rothstein
Katherine Sachs
Linda and Andrew Safran
Hermina Seiden and Martin Z. Margulies
Annabelle Selldorf
Marc Selwyn
Ivy Shapiro
Victoria Smith
Deborah Solomon and Kent Sepkowitz
Stacy Tenenbaum Stark
Craig F. Starr
Fern and Lenard Tessler
David Traitel
Gordon VeneKlasen
Alan Wanzenberg
Wildenstein & Co. Inc.
David Zwirner
In-Kind Contributors
Wines generously contributed by Ninah Lynne and Bedell Cellars.
FCA gratefully acknowledges annual in-kind support from UOVO for art storage and services.
I hope younger artists will continue to be aware of this unique thing that artists have made, that they will take pride and pleasure in assisting its ongoing development.