Note to the Secretary-General Tonight you and Mrs. Annan have agreed to drop by (from 6:35-6:45 p.m.) the reception in the West Terrace hosted by Yoko Ono wherein she will present grants to an Israeli and a Palestinian artist in her own Middle East humanitarian arts initiative. When Mrs. Annan and you arrive David Finn, Philippa Polskin and Holly Peppe of Ruder-Finn, will greet you. You will then be accompanied into the center of the room where two easels will display the work of the two artist recipients of the LennonOno Grants, Khalil Rabah and Zvi Goldstein. The following people will greet you and stand with you for a brief photo-op: > Yoko Ono > Zvi Goldstein, Israeli artist, grant recipient > Khalil Rabah, Palestinian artist, grant recipient > Jack Persekian, Founder & Director, Anadiel Gallery, Jerusalem > Suzanne Landau, Chief Curator, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem > Shlomit Shaked, Independent Curator, Israel. At 6:45 p.m. you will proceed to the Macalester Reception and dinner, in Private Dining Room #8. Kevin S.: 9 October 2002 Copy to: Ms. S. Burnheim ROUTING SLIP FICHE DE TRANSMISSION TO: A A: OJ *Mt* FROM: / /" DE: /64< ^*^/^^~^ Room No. — No de bureau Extension — Poste Date / G&W aiLbfo^ FOR ACTION POUR SUITE A DONNER FOR APPROVAL POUR APPROBATION FOR SIGNATURE POUR SIGNATURE FOR COMMENTS POUR OBSERVATIONS MAY WE DISCUSS? POURRIONS-NOUS EN PARLER ? YOUR ATTENTION VOTRE ATTENTION AS DISCUSSED COMME CONVENU AS REQUESTED SUITE A VOTRE DEMANDS NOTE AND RETURN NOTER ET RETOURNER FOR INFORMATION POUR INFORMATION COM.6 12-78) ZVI GOLDSTEIN Artist Recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace Born in Transylvania, Romania in 1947, artist Zvi Goldstein immigrated to Israel in 1958. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem from 1966 to 1969 and then moved to Italy where he studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He currently resides in Jerusalem. Goldstein was awarded the Israel Museum's Sandberg Prize in 1984, the Aaron Levy Prize in 1987, and the Mies van der Rohe Stipendium in 1985. Goldstein has participated in many acclaimed biennial exhibitions including documents 8 (1987) in Kassel; Aperto 88, the 1988 Venice Biennale; The Ready Made Boomerang (1990), the 8th Sidney Biennial; and New Orient/Action (1995), the 4th Istanbul Biennial. The artist's sculptural installations have also been featured in numerous solo exhibitions at major international venues including the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (1987); the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1975,1982,1994, 1995); the Kunstraum, Munich (1989), and International with Monument, New York (1987). Interviews and articles about the artist have appeared The New York Times, Flash Art, and Art in America, in addition to other international art journals. Goldstein's work was also featured in The 2Cfh Century Art Book (Phaidon Press, London, 1996). ZVI GOLDSTEIN Wedding, 1995 (E.T.N.O.) 200x250x100 cm Anodized and lacquered aluminum, wire construction, medium-density fibreboard (MDF), wood, plexiglass, plastics, clamps, textiles from Damascus, Ethiopian monk's cowl, photographs laminated in plastic, labels, silkscreen SUZANNE LANDAU Chief Curator for the Arts, Israel Museum Born in Czechoslovakia, Suzanne Landau immigrated to Israel in 1968. She studied art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1968 to 1973 where she completed both her bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1978 she began working at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem as an assistant to the Chief Curator. In 1982, she was appointed Curator of Contemporary Art and in 1998, Chief Curator for the Arts. Among the numerous exhibitions Landau has curated at the Israel Museum are: James Turrell (1982), Mario Merz (1983), Anselm Kiefer (1984), Christian Boltanski (1989), Kiki Smith (1994), Gerhard Richter (1995), Rosemarie Trockel (1996), Yinka Shonibare (2002), as well as group shows such as: Life-Size (1990), Hidden Reflections (1992), Marks (1996), and Skin- Deep (1999). She has also curated projects in the Billy Rose Art Garden with artists such as Richard Serra, Sol LeWitt, Magdalena Abakanowicz, James Turrell, and Claes Oldenburg. Over the years, Landau established and continues to build a comprehensive contemporary art collection at the museum that includes major works by artists including John Baldessari, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Kiki Smith, Anselm Kiefer, Robert Gober, Charles Ray, Mark Wallinger, Mona Hatoum, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Wall, Pierre Huyghes, William Kentridge, Bill Viola, Damien Hirst, Fischli & Weiss, Mark Dion, Jana Sterbak, and Sharon Lockhart. JACK PERSEKIAN Director of the Anadiel Gallery and the AI-Ma'mal Foundation Jack Persekian, born in Jerusalem in 1962, devotes much of his energy to encouraging and publicizing the Palestinian art scene. In 1992 he founded Anadiel, the first contemporary art gallery in East Jerusalem. Following the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority, he joined forces with the Ministry of Culture in 1994 to head the Department of Visual Arts. In 1997, Persekian and a group of artists and friends co-founded the AI-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, the first institution dedicated to contemporary art in Palestine. Among other commissions, he curated the 1998 official Palestinian representation to the XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo in Brazil, and in 1999-2000 directed and produced the Millennium Celebrations held in Bethlehem. Persekian is currently the director of Anadiel Gallery and AI-Ma'mal Foundation in Jerusalem. KHALI L RABAH Artist Recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace Born in Jerusalem in 1961, artist Khalil Rabah lives and works in Ramallah, Palestine. He received a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Texas in 1991 and completed a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1992. Rabah was an instructor in architecture at Birzeit University in Palestine from 1994 to1995 and served as a jury critic in that department from 1993 to 1996. From 1997 to 2000, Rabah taught fine art at Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. In 1997, he co-founded, with Jack Persekian and others, the AI-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, the first institution dedicated to contemporary art in Palestine. In 1998, Rabah was selected to represent Palestine in the XXVI Bienale in San Paulo, Brazil. He has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions including: Building Bridges (1994) at Meridian International Center, Washington, DC; Paiz (1994) at the Ville de Marseilles, France; Dialogue of Peace (1995) at the United Nations Arian Park, Geneva, Switzerland; and Skin Deep: Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art (1999) at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Since 1994 his work has been featured in more than eight solo exhibitions, including Body and Sole (1996) at Process Architects, Ramallah; On What Grounds (1997) at the Anadiel Gallery, Jerusalem; Khalil Rabah (2000) at Gallery Bangnai, Siena, Italy; and feeling (a)part (2001) at Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. KHALIL RABAH A This and a That, 1999 Body and Sole Slides, video, 56 min, VMS loop SHLOMIT SHAKED Independent Curator Born in Austria, Shlomit Snaked is an independent curator with a doctorate in Art History who currently resides in Zichron Yackob, Israel. From 1986 to 1992 she was Art Critic for the daily newspaper Ma'arive and Studio Art Magazine. Shaked has curated numerous exhibitions including: Poland Aperture to a World Laid Waste: Photographs from the Forbes Collection, Boston at the Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (1988); Eldad Shaaltiel: Glass Bunkers at The De Free Art Center and Gallery at Hope College, Holland, Michigan (1991); Locus: Contemporary Art from Israel at the Fisher Gallery of Southern California, Los Angeles (1993); Silent Vision: Six Israeli Artists at the Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, (1994); Border Line: Israeli & Palestinian Artists at the Umm El- Fachem Art Gallery, Israel (1996); Nature's Factory, winter 2046: Benny Efrat and Ronny Someck at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1998); He Who Whitens Black Cats, Noam Braslawski at the Hmumche Alternative Space, Tel Aviv (1998); Yoko Ono: Open Window (in collaboration with Jon Hendricks, New York City, and Shoshana Blank, Santa Monica, CA) at the Umm EI-Fachem Art Gallery, Israel (1999); and Beheaded Readymade: Photographs by Margalit Mannorat Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv (2000). She is currently involved in making a documentary film about the life and work of Palestinian artist Ibrahim Nubbani. (N -aCO e O No Terrac 8 N o •§2 °-^ H 8 •*3 V N 13 M-, •a z -s: o J2 ft,^ -^ o o •- i»» *•- Q p 0 O S <3 (S% u O *•» cjj 00 n o s S ^ o I « O 13 O a * o S o ^ 8 .O •« ~§ " 3 i O v> anitaria Q 5~i 8 ^-C >1 V^ 8 8 8 ~ Q S -5 Q o VJ YOKO ONO Photo Credit: © Jayne Wexler Courtesy of Lenono Photo Archive Photo Credit Must Accompany Any Usage One-Time Reproduction Only UNITED NATIONS MOT NATIONS UNIES Executive Office of the Secretary-General New York, NY 10017 FACSIMILE MESSAGE Date: 9 October 2002 Pages: 1 To: From: //.[ v Mr. Fred Eckhard Kevin S. Kennedy OK Spokesman Officer-in-charge Office for External Relations Fax: 963-7055 Fax: (212)963-1185 Tel: 963-5128 Tel: (212)963-6821 Subject: Secretary-General's attendance at the Macalester College Dinner - Wednesday, 9 October 2002 Message FYI Today, 9 October 2002, Yoko Ono will host a reception at 6:00 p.m. in the Delegates Dining Room, and will offer grants to two artists - one Palestinian and one Israeli - in her own "Middle East Humanitarian Arts Initiative". The artists have been selected by Ms. Ono in consultation with the curators of two art institutions in the region: the Israel Museum Jerusalem and the Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Secretary-General will stop by the reception to greet and congratulate Ms.