{"id":22118,"date":"2017-09-15T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=22118"},"modified":"2017-09-15T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:44:39","slug":"inside-the-fifth-annual-high-line-art-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/inside-the-fifth-annual-high-line-art-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Fifth Annual High Line Art Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, High Line Art<\/a> hosted its fifth annual High Line Art Dinner on the Diller – von Furstenberg Sundeck. A highly anticipated event, the dinner welcome over 200 luminaries of the art world and honored\u00a0artist Carol Bove and founding supporter Donald R. Mullen, Jr.<\/p>\n

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Guests were welcomed with\u00a0Casa Dragones<\/a> tequila, specialty cocktails and a special activation by Max Hooper Schneider who\u00a0to created two \u201cbonsai preserves\u201d in a biome with UV-reactive water dye and blacklights. Once the sun went down, Schneider’s pieces illuminated and served as the perfect backdrop throughout the evening. Guests kept warm with limited edition scarves created by artist Maurizio Cattelan.<\/p>\n

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Max Hooper Schneider, UV Bonsai Preserve (Orange), 2017<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Director and Chief Curator of the High Line expressed her excitement to\u00a0attendees. “We are also thrilled to premiere two special artist contribution to the High Line dinner. Maurizio Cattelan has realized a limited edition that you will find on the back of your chairs: it\u2019s a soccer fan scarf dedicated to the High Line that proudly states we have been \u201cHigh Since 1934.”I must confess it was Robert who came up with this slogan, and I am not so sure what that says about the kind of plants we have been growing up here for the past ten years.”<\/p>\n

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Maurizio Cattelan scarves<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Committed to presenting the work of world-class artists in a public space free of charge, High Line Art<\/a> commissions and produces over 30 projects a year by artists from around the world. Proceeds from the High Line Art Dinner help sustain this mission, as well as the ongoing maintenance and operation of the park.<\/p>\n

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Dinner scene<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Guests included\u00a0Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer; artists Francisca Benitez, Matthew Day Jackson, Anicka Yi, Rashid Johnson, Sam Durant, Charles Gaines, Cheryl Donegan, Ryan McNamara, and Nari Ward; curators Eugenie Tsai, Thelma Golden, Nato Thompson, and Massimiliano Gioni.<\/p>\n

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Rashid Johnson, Sheree Hovsepian, Thelma Golden<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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photos \/\/ courtesy of Liz Ligon<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Sansho Scott, bfa.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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