CITYarts celebrated our 39th annual
"Making a Difference Through the Arts" Benefit Auction and Awards Ceremony on May 3, 2007 at the Broad Street Ballroom
Message from the Director:

Dear Friends,

Thank you for joining us and our outstanding honorees, Jeanne Greenberg and Nick Rohatyn and Elizabeth Murray in celebrating CITYarts' 39th anniversary of "Making a Difference Through the Arts." Our goal was to raise new funds and make new friends and we were very successful in both.  Thank you for your support of CITYarts. We look forward to celebrating our 40th with you next year.

-Tsipi Ben-Haim, Executive & Artistic Director
 

Board of Directors:

Amnon Bar-Tur,
Acting Chairman

Helene Saren Lawrence, Treasurer

Gisela Keller, Secretary

Helene Feldman
 
Lisa de Kooning

Irene Minkoff

Carrie Cohen

Vera Sung

Tsipi Ben-Haim, Executive & Artistic Director
 

Board of Advisors:

Sam August

Anna Carbonell

Deborah Dugan

Robert Fisher

Charlotta Kotik

Alex Gorlin

Katie Hollander

Stephanie
Holmquist

Nina & Daniel Libeskind

Miranda McClintic

Laura Miller

Dr Lewis Peach

Lois Vaisman
 

CITYarts Staff:
 
Tsipi Ben-Haim,
Executive & Artistic Director

Helen Schumacher, Assistant to the Director

Christine Lu, Benefit/Project Coordinator

Cori Thune, Development Coordinator
 

Sponsored By:

Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro

Ambassador Felix and Elizabeth
Rohatyn

Mark Benun
 

Photography:
 
Wendy Nadler
 

Thank you to our Art Auction contributors:
 

Sally Apfelbaum

Corice Cantor Arman

Unni Askeland

Augusto Arbizo

Zigi Ben-Haim

Victoria Behm

Stephanie Brody-Lederman

Amnon Bar-Tur

Judith K. Brodsky

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Moki Cherry

James Cooper

Willie Cole

Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts

Elliott Arkin

Susan Daboll

Cecilie Dahl

Jessica Diamond

Leslie Dill

Francesca DiMattio

Jim Dingilian

Marylyn Dintenfass

Eric Doeringer

Dorsky Gallery

Sarah Draney

Mia Ennel

Eva Faye

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc.

Lesny JN Felix

RM Fischer

Karen Fitzgerald

Gail Flanery

Jacques Flechemuller

Jean Foos

Carol Friedman

Ali Gallagher

Judy Glantzman

Dan George

Cris Gianakos

Ralph Gibson

Karen Gillerman Harel

Gracie Mansion Fine Art

Katy Grannan

Greenberg Van Doren Gallery

Isabelle Gros

Mimi Gross

Rainer Gross

Pamela Hanson

Damian Henry

Jenny Holzer

Holly Hughes

Constance Kamens Fine Art

Alex Katz

Marilyn Keating

Gloria Kisch

Vitaly Komar

Joyce Kozloff

Ivan Kustura

Stephan Lack

Daniel Libeskind

Isaac Lin

Judy Lombourg

Jean Lowe

Eva Lundsager

Alen MacWeeney

Cameron Martin

Janice Mehlman

Louis Mendez

Marilyn Minter

Victor Mira

Bill Moakler

Tracey Moffatt

Judith Murrary

Stuart Netsky

Darrell Nettles

Nicky Nodjoumi

Morgan O'Hara

Nam June Paik

Miguel Palma

Duda Penteado

Thomas Phil

Philagrafika

Lucio Pozzi

Faith Ringgold

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc.

Anne Katrine Senstad

Miriam Schapiro

Laurie Simmons

Susan Sinek

Peter Sis

Buzz Specter

Nancy Spero

Stefan Stux Gallery

Bill Sullivan

Tattfoo Tan

Gwenn Thomas

Turid Meeker Contemporary Art

Carlos Paez Vilaro

Hank Virgona

Martabel Wasserman

William Wegman

Terry Winters

Elga Wimmer

Staley-Wise Gallery

Yaakov Rosenblatt

Nina Yankowitz

Robert Yasuda

Marcia G. Yerman

Nola Zirin

 
 
Baruch Park Mural Project, Summer 2007
 
Come paint with CITYarts this summer at Baruch Playground.
 
Bring your friends and family!
 
 
Image of mural wall
 
 
Contact Christine Lu to set up a date and time!
 
 
 
CITYarts
525 Broadway
Suite 700
New York, NY 10012
(T) 212.966.0377
(F) 212.966.0551
info@cityarts.org
www.cityarts.org
 
Volume II, Issue 1
 July 2007
Photos from CITYarts Benefit & Awards Ceremony


Agnes Gund presents award to Elizabeth Murray with husband, Bob Holman and Tsipi Ben-Haim. Award designed by Jennifer Bartlett.


Nick and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn receive the award from Executive Director Tsipi Ben-Haim. Award designed by Francesca DiMattio.


"Making a Difference Through the Arts" awards created by Francesca DiMattio and Jennifer Bartlett.


Michelle Palatnik accepts "The Elizabeth Murray Scholarship sponsored by CITYarts."


Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Bob Holman, Michelle Palatnik, Elizabeth Murray, and Tsipi Ben-Haim.


The CITYarts Board of Directors with honorees Jeanne Greenberg and Nick Rohatyn, Elizabeth Murray, and scholarship winner Michelle Palatnik.


Live auction with Jennifer Roth, Sotheby's.


Live Auction; Artwork by Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Marilyn Minter, and Alex Katz (left to right).


Guests during the award ceremony.


CITYarts board member Helene Feldman, Sotheby's auctioneer Jennifer Roth, and Executive Director Tsipi Ben-Haim


The Blue Orchid Dance Orchestra.


Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Zigi and Tsipi Ben-Haim, Nick Rohatyn, Ambassador Dan Gillerman and his wife, Janice Gillerman, and Master of Ceremonies, Monica Morales, NBC.


Thank You For "Making a Difference Through the Arts."


Funds raised will benefit CITYarts'
"Engaging Graffiti Kids in Creation, not Destruction" mural program, as well as "The Elizabeth Murray Scholarship sponsored by CITYarts." Michelle Palatnik, our scholarship recipient will be painting with us this summer on the second mural in our "Engaging Graffiti Kids in Creation, not Destruction" mural program located at Baruch Playground in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In the Fall, she will attend New York University to study visual arts.

Circle of Friends

SPONSOR

Agnes Gund & Daniel Shapiro
Ambassador Felix & Elizabeth Rohatyn
Mark Benun

DONOR

Dr. Miriam & Sheldon G. Adelson
Goldman Sachs & Company

AMBASSADOR

Amnon Bar Tur, Chairman C2 Media
Henry Buhl
Lyor Cohen
The Walt Disney Company

PATRON

The Abraham Fuchsberg Foundation
Allianz of America
Helene & Ziel Feldman
Carol S. Feinberg & Kenneth Gilman
Randy Gilman & Henri Boll
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
Nathalie & Charles de Gunzburg
Michele Von Habsburg
Helene & Jim Lawrence
Ann Tenenbaum & Thomas H. Lee
Alice & Thomas Tisch
Daniel & Margaret Munzer Loeb
Joan Mitchell Foundation
Lisa & Richard Perry
Dina Recanati
Brigitte Vosse

HONORARY COMMITTEE

Alan B. & Barbara Mirken Foundation
Joe Abergel
James Anchin
Noami & Eugene Andrews
Aya Azrielant
Nelson Blitz
Stanley Blum
Leonard Boxer
Anna Carbonell
Joan & Ted Cutler
Maxwell Davidson
Douglas S. Ellenoff
Peter R. Ezersky & Lorinda Ash Ezersky
Charlotte & Bruce Ford
Stephanie French/U.S. Trust
Fred Gould
H. Dale Hemmerdinger
Stephanie Holmquist & Mark Allison
Ellen and Peter Jakobson
Ran Kohn
Ronald Lauder
William Lerner
Warren Leshen
Nina & Daniel Libeskind
Marvin Markman
Al Marks & Leonard Brum
James McEvoy
Guido Mosca
Andrew & Alvin Murstein
Perri Peltz & Eric Ruttenberg
Joel Picket
Richard Prince
Harvey Ravner
Jeannette Rohatyn
Eric & Fiona Rudin
Daryosh Sakhai
Susan Sarandon
Nissim Seliktar
Leonard Schlussel
Morton F. Silver
Henry Solan
Jerome and Ellen Stern
Vera Sung/Abacus Federal Savings Bank
David Taub
John Usdan
Diana & Rafael Vinoly
PaceWildenstein
Eli Zacharia

BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Dr. & Mrs. Morrell Michael Avram
Charles & Jennifer Bank
Frances Dittmer
Sheila & Barry Erdos
Judith & Warren Feder
Sara Fitzmaurice
Arthur Fleischer, Jr.
Barbara Gladstone Gallery
Alex Gorlin
Jackie Greenberg
Theodore J. Israel & Laurel Cutler
Jewish Communal Fund
Gisela Keller
KX Associates
Kate Lear & Jonathan LaPook
Arlene & Mitchell Maidman
Turid & Craig Meeker
Marvin Numeroff
Russell Riccardi
Benjamin & Donna Rosen
The Topor Family Foundation
Donna & Chuck Turlinski