The Kitchen Spring Gala Honoring Charles Atlas & Dara Birnbaum
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The Kitchen Spring Gala Benefit honoring
Charles Atlas & Dara Birnbaum
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Honorary Co-Chairs
Roland J. Augustine
Marian Goodman
Lawrence R. Luhring
Elizabeth A. Sackler
Gala Co-Chairs
Oliver Newton
Dr. Catherine Orentreich
Mila and Tom Tuttle
6:00pm Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres
7:30pm Dinner and performances by
Stanley Love Performance Group, Caroline Polachek (of Chairlift), and Glenn Branca
9:30pm–12:30am After-Party with Venus X and special guest
Lady Bunny
After-Party Hosts
BCALLA, DeSe Escobar, Eckhaus Latta, Johanna Fateman, K8 Hardy, Pati Hertling, Ladyfag, Ryan McNamara, No Bra, Ellie Rines, Jacolby Satterwhite, Thor Shannon, Eliza Soros, SSION, Shaun SureThing, Emily Sundblad, Stewart Uoo
Tickets: Benefactor ($2,500), Producer ($1,500), and Patron ($550, limited availability).
Tables: Lead Sponsor ($25,000) and Sponsor ($20,000) levels seat twelve, receive a benefit print and premium seating. Benefactor ($15,000), Producer ($10,000), and Patron ($5,500, limited availability) tables seat ten.
After-Party Tickets are available at the door for $100.
Cipriani Wall Street
55 Wall Street, NYC
For more information, please contact Caitlin Gleason (212) 255-5793 ext. 10 or caitlin@thekitchen.org.
If you are unable to joins us, but would like to send a tax-deductible donation, please click here.
Limited-Edition Prints
Proceeds from the sale of these prints by Charles Atlas and Dara Birnbaum will support artists whose groundbreaking, genre-defying work appears at The Kitchen during the year ahead. Print editioning by Laumont Studios.
To purchase a print, please click here: https://squareup.com/store/the-kitchen-nyc/
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Charles Atlas, Untitled (Teach (Leigh)), 1992–1998/2016 |
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Dara Birnbaum, Untitled (Transmission Tower: Sentinel), 1992/2016 |
Lead Sponsor and Sponsor tables will receive one print. The Kitchen can arrange to ship your prints after May 30, 2016 for an additional cost. For more information please contact Katy Dammers, 212.255.5793 ext. 21 or katy@thekitchen.org.
Benefit Committee
| Marla Mayer and Chris Ahearn | Lisa Ivorian-Jones |
| Anohni | J.P. Morgan |
| Augusto Arbizo | Joan Jonas |
| Elizabeth and Matthew Baird | Cristina Enriquez-Bocobo and Michael Kantrow |
| Kyra Tirana Barry | Andrew Kreps |
| Dike Blair | Lady Bunny |
| Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | Chum Langhorne |
| Calvin Klein, Inc. | Mia Jung and Scott M. Lawin |
| Mika Tajima and Howie Chen | Ralph Lemon |
| Judith L. Church | Alex Logsdail / Lisson Gallery |
| Michael Clark | Barbara London |
| James Cohan Gallery | Barbara Sukowa and Robert Longo |
| Nina del Rio and Aaron Cohen | Luhring Augustine |
| Stuart Comer | Haley Mellin |
| Paula Cooper | Nico Muhly |
| Katie Cusack | James Murphy |
| Polly Motley and Molly Davies | Sukey and Mike Novogratz |
| Debevoise & Plimpton LLP | Yvonne Rainer |
| Matthew Doull | Garland Hunter and Matthew Ritchie |
| Johanna Fateman | Tanya Selvaratnam |
| Melanie Shorin and Greg S. Feldman | Lucy Sexton |
| Marci Field | Cindy Sherman |
| Charlotte Feng Ford | Melissa Schiff Soros |
| Sandy Tait and Hal Foster | Robert Soros |
| Marian Goodman Gallery | Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund |
| Julie Graham | Stewart Uoo |
| Carol Greene | Sofia and James von Moltke |
| Agnes Gund | Kate Werble |
| Wade Guyton | Suzy Coue-Wilson and Edward Wilson |
| Douglas Hand | Helene Winer |
| Hauser & Wirth | Debra Singer and Jay Worthington |
| Laura Hoffmann | Lori Zippay |
Photo: Hail the New Puritan, 1986, 16mm film transferred to video, sound (still). Duration: 84:54. © Charles Atlas; Courtesy of the Artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, and Prestel Publishing. Photo: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978/9, video, sound (still). Duration: 5:23. © Dara Birnbaum. Courtesy of the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
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