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The Summer Party at The Glass House
by Paul Laster
Artists, curators, collectors, and dealers gathered at the Glass House for the annual summer party, which raised funds to support the Glass House programs and preservation projects.
Built between 1949 and 1995 by architect Philip Johnson, the Glass House is a National Trust Historic Site located in New Canaan, CT. The 49-acre landscape comprises 14 structures, including the Glass House, and features a permanent collection of 20th century painting and sculpture, along with temporary exhibitions.
E.V. Day had a site-specific exhibition referencing spiders and webs in Da Monsta, the last pavilion that Johnson added to the property in 1995, and Tauba Auerbach had an undulating sand sculpture displayed on a Mies van der Rohe table in the Glass House, where a missing Alberto Giacometti piece had long been on view.
Visitors had the full run of the estate—which includes works by Frank Stella, Julian Schnabel, Donald Judd, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, David Salle, and others—while enjoying a picnic lunch prepared by Chef Brian Lewis from Elm and the trippy sounds of musician Eliza Rickman.
Independent curator Charlie Scheips and art dealer Craig Starr
Chef Brian Lewis
Artist E.V. Day and writer Ted Lee in Day's installation
Musician Eliza Rickman
Alfred Dunhill North America president Eric Nelson Jones with a Donald Judd sculpture
Print publishers Jean-Yves Noblet and Michael Trese
Photographer Lawrence Beck
Artist Julie Langsam and Neuberger Museum of Art director Paola Morsiani
CBS News anchorman Scott Pelley
Independent curator and jewelry designer Renee Riccardo
Artists Josephine Meckseper and Sarah Morris
Artist Matthew Weinstein
Chosen director Paul Morris
The New York Observer culture editor Sarah Douglas and Gallerist NY writer Zoë Lescaze
Art dealer Richard Feigen
Photographer Shahrzad Kamel and art dealer Amir Mortazavi
Artist Tauba Auerbach
Artists Julia Chiang and KAWS
Musician Cameron Mesirow
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation curator David White and Anthony Grammardella
Artists Francesca DiMattio, Sarah Morris, Garth Weiser, and Josephine Meckseper
Moss directors Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell
Photographer Todd Eberle
Art collector Roger Leifer
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He’s a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and writer for Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Sculpture, Art & Object, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Garage, Surface, Ocula, Observer, ArtPulse, Conceptual Fine Arts and Glasstire. He was the founding editor of Artkrush, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine, as well as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, now MoMA PS1.
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