{"id":31067,"date":"2018-11-09T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=31067"},"modified":"2018-11-09T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:25:20","slug":"rxart-party-honors-rashid-johnson-and-neil-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/rxart-party-honors-rashid-johnson-and-neil-blumenthal\/","title":{"rendered":"RxArt PARTY Honors Rashid Johnson and Neil Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, November 8, 2018,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rxart.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RxArt<\/a> held its 18th annual RxArt PARTY\u00a0and auction at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.432parkavenue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">432 Park Avenue<\/a>.\u00a0The evening honored artist\u00a0Rashid Johnson\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warbyparker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warby Parker<\/a> Co-Founder, Co-CEO and RxArt board member\u00a0Neil Blumenthal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The evening kicked off with specialty cocktails by <a href=\"https:\/\/whisky.suntory.com\/en\/na\/the-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The House of Suntory<\/a>, as guests navigated through a Rashid Johnson-inspired cocktail space, filled with greenery courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantshed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlantShed<\/a>,\u00a0while previewing the auction artworks that were up for bid. Following cocktails, guests entered the dining room for a seated dinner with dishes by 432 Park&#8217;s in-house chef\u00a0Shaun Hergatt, followed by a musical performance by classically-trained pianist and music producer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/audioblk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antoine Baldwin<\/a>, who worked with Johnson on &#8220;Antoine&#8217;s Organ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31070\" style=\"width: 803px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31070\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BFA_25962_3181828-e1541790977552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"803\" height=\"602\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Rashid Johnson, Diane Brown, Neil Blumenthal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The evening honored\u00a0Rashid Johnson with the\u00a0RxArt Inspiration Award\u00a0in celebration of his extraordinary multidisciplinary practice and creativity, and the engaging installation he\u2019s creating for a new children\u2019s clinic at <a href=\"https:\/\/childrens-hospital.lomalindahealth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Loma Linda University Children\u2019s Health<\/a> in Indio, CA. Neil Blumenthal was also honored and was presented with the\u00a0RxArt Innovation Award\u00a0for his philanthropic work and steadfast guidance on the RxArt board.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The party culminated with a live auction led by\u00a0Sara Friedlander, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christie\u2019s<\/a> International Director, Head of Post-War &amp; Contemporary Art in New York, in which each live auction work was sold.\u00a0Guests included\u00a0Joel Mesler, Sarah Brown, Lauren Layne; Agnes Gund, David Rothschild, Kenny Schachter,\u00a0and\u00a0Joyce Varvatos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-31069\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BFA_25962_3181943-e1541791002408.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><strong>ABOUT RxART<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rxart.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RxArt<\/a> is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children heal through the extraordinary power of visual art. We commission exceptional contemporary artists to transform sterile healthcare facilities into engaging and inspiring environments full of beauty, humor and comfort.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>all images \/\/ Neil Rasmus\/ BFA.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, November 8, 2018,\u00a0RxArt held its 18th <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":31071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}