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American Federation of Art
2012 Spring Luncheon |
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Capera Ryan, Adam Gopnik, Clare McKeon, and Pauline Willis.
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Adam Gopnik was the speaker at the American Federation of Art's (AFA) annual spring luncheon, which was held at the Colony Club in New York on Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Clare McKeon, Elizabeth Rohatyn, and Capera Ryan were the event co-chairs.
Gopnik more than lived up to his reputation as an astute and witty speaker as he spoke about his changing relationship to the art world. A writer for The New Yorker since 1986, Gopnik is also the author of numerous critically acclaimed books, most recently, The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food (2011) and Winter: Five Windows on the Season (2011). In 1990, he collaborated with Kirk Varnedoe on the exhibition High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture and co-wrote the book of the same name, which Robert Hughes called “the indispensable text on its subject.”
Approximately 95 guests were in attendance, including Olivia Chantecaille, Vanessa Cornell, Nathalie Kaplan, Jan Oresman, Elizabeth Sachs, and Vicky Ward; museum directors Ruth Appelhof (Guild Hall), and Margarita Aguilar (El Museo del Barrio); and AFA Director Pauline Willis.
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Vanessa Cornell and Olivia Chantecaille.
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Ruth Appelhof and Jeffrey Loewy.
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Richard Lane.
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Michael Solovay, Martha Parker, Susan Solovay and Adam Gopnik.
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Nathalie Kaplan and Clare McKeon.
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Elizabeth Sachs.
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Jason Herrick and Jan Oresman.
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Linda Ash Ezesky and Susan Solovay.
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Christine Harmon, Alexandra Doan Drucker, and Stephanie La Nasa.
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| Photos:
Julie Skarratt 2012 |
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