Academy of the Arts Achievement Awards
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
ACADEMY OF THE ARTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS GUILD HALL HONORING Alice Aycock • Carter Burwell Bob Colacello • Patti Askwith Kenner RAINBOW ROOM//NEW YORK, NY ROOM//NEW YORK, RAINBOW MARCH 11, 2019 MARCH 11, Many thanks to Linda Capello and Pietro Cicognani for continuing the Sunday life class at Billy’s studio! KATHARINE RAYNER Congratulations to all of tonight’s honorees: Alice Aycock Carter Burwell Bob Colacello Patti Askwith Kenner And thank you to Guild Hall for continuing to be the leading arts, entertainment and education center in the Hamptons. THE MERINGOFF FAMILY FOUNDATION 2019 ACADEMY OF THE ARTS AWARDS MENU Monday, March 11 2019, Rainbow Room PASSED CANAPÉS FIRST COURSE Celery Root Tart Crispy Brussel Sprouts, Roasted Chestnuts, and Mizuna Salad MAIN COURSE Roasted Breast of Long Island Duck Sweet Turnip Fondant, Lavender, Orange Braised Endive, and Spiced Duck Jus Wild Mushroom Risotto Young Leeks, Sunchokes, and Truffles DESSERT Baked Alaska Vanilla Bean and Pistachio Ice Cream with Raspberry Sorbert, Dark Chocolate, Vanilla Sponge Cake, and Toasted Meringue AN ADVENTURE IN WELLNESS GUILD HALL ACADEMY OF THE ARTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS THE RAINBOW ROOM Monday, March 11, 2019 Celebrating Artistic Excellence COCKTAILS WELCOME Eric Fischl // President, Academy of the Arts, Evening Host Marty Cohen // Chair, Board of Trustees Andrea Grover // Executive Director Adam Green // Emcee DINNER HONORING Patti Askwith Kenner // Special Award for Leadership and Philanthropy presented by Tovah Feldshuh Alice Aycock // Visual Arts presented by Adam Weinberg Bob Colacello // Literary Arts presented by Linda Yablonsky Live Performance of a Carter Burwell composition performed by Yo La Tengo. Carter Burwell // Performing Arts presented by Ethan Coen MEDIA SPONSOR EVENT SPONSORS HOLLANDER designFor advertising LANDSCAPE information, ARCHITECTS please contact [email protected] applauds GUILD HALL for its continued leadership in the arts hollanderdesign.com 212-473-0620 New York Chicago Sag Harbor Congratulations to all the honorees On receiving the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Alice Aycock Carter Burwell Bob Colacello Patti Askwith Kenner We salute Guild Hall for being such an extraordinary cultural institution for the East End. PAM AND ED PANTZER Guild Hall rocks!!! Thanks to all who make it work... Hearty congratulations to our wonderful, well deserving 2019 honorees! SUSAN AND MORRIS MARK Congratulations Guild Hall for its continued success. We salute the Academy of the Arts Achievement Award recipients Alice Aycock Carter Burwell Bob Colacello Patti Askwith Kenner And thank the many supporters who helped make this evening a success. CHERYL AND MICHAEL MINIKES ERIC FISCHL ERIC Good evening! As President of Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts, I’m honored to welcome you to our Lifetime Achievement Awards Dinner. We offer our lucky attendees a night of food, stellar company, penetrating addresses from leaders in the arts, and very special music as we celebrate the careers of serious contributors to the art world. Each was selected by the Academy membership, a society of accomplished art professionals capped at 200 living members who live at least part of the year in the vibrant art community of the East End. Tonight we very proudly honor Alice Aycock for Visual Arts, Carter Burwell for Performing Arts, and Bob Colacello for Literary Arts. How pleased we are that Patti Kenner will accept a Special Award for Leadership and Philanthropy. Tonight we thank them for inspiring us by sharing their visionary work. With live music provided by Tovah Feldshuh and Yo La Tengo, we expect you’ll enjoy an up-tempo time. You will hear presentations of awards from such international luminaries as Ethan Coen, Adam Weinberg, and Linda Yablonsky, with Adam Green acting as Master of Ceremonies and Andrea Grover helping us award our honorees. Let’s all thank them for weaving a magical evening. And many thanks to each of you for attending! FROM THE PRESIDENT AND HOST OF THE EVENING// THE OF HOST AND PRESIDENT THE FROM ERIC FISCHL President, Academy of the Arts Thank You Alice Aycock Carter Burwell Bob Colacello Patti Askwith Kenner For Your Dedication And Great Contributions To The Arts MARTY AND MICHELE COHEN Dear Guests, We believe in artists. This evening is a tribute to that basic tenet of Guild Hall. Artists lead us. Artists feed our minds and spirits. When Guild Hall was founded in 1931, it was the first multidisciplinary center in the country, combining a museum, theater, and education program. Artists quickly flocked to Guild Hall and saw it as a platform for creative expression. At one time, Edward Albee was co-director of the John Drew Theater, Alfonso Ossorio organized the Members Exhibition, and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner hung their work in it. Guild Hall has always been loved by artists. Tonight, we honor the creative visionaries of this moment. Carter Burwell, whose music carries the narrative of dozens of motion pictures; Alice Aycock, who fearlessly pioneered monumental sculpture at the intersection of art and science; Bob Colacello, whose words chronicle the remarkable individuals of our time; and Patti Kenner, a tireless advocate for advancement, who created a fellowship for arts educators at Guild Hall. And we also honor you, our supporters, who are helping build the Guild Hall of the future. Enjoy the evening! With appreciation, ANDREA GROVER MARTY COHEN Executive Director Chairman Congratulations to all of tonight’s honorees, and my dear friend Alice Aycock for her Achievement in Visual Arts. JOYCE MENSCHEL Photo: Gus Sarino Photo: ALICE AYCOCK, Toronto Twister, 2017 Pier 27, Toronto, Canada Aluminum powder coated white 25 feet tall at highest point ALICE AYCOCK ALICE PHOTO: KRISTINE LARSEN KRISTINE PHOTO: Alice Aycock has lived in New York City since 1968. Aycock received a B.A. from Douglass College and an M.A. from Hunter College. Her works can be found in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Louis Vuitton Foundation, the LA County Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, Omi International Arts Center, and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, Germany. A traveling retrospective was organized by the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart (1983) and a retrospective was held at Storm King (1990). In 1997, the artist’s one person exhibition Alice Aycock: Waltzing Matilda was mounted at Guild Hall. In 2013, a retrospective of her drawings and small sculptures was exhibited at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York coinciding with the Grey Art Gallery in New York City. HONOREE FORHONOREE ARTS// VISUAL Aycock’s public sculptures can be found in many major cities in the U.S., including East River Park Pavilion at 60th Street in New York City (1995/2014); San Francisco Public Library (1996); JFK International Airport, NY (1998/2013); GSA Building, Baltimore, MD (2004); Nashville, TN (2008); and Washington Dulles International Airport (2012). In 2014, a series of seven sculptures were installed in New York City, entitled Park Avenue Paper Chase, in collaboration with Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin. In 2016, she completed a large-scale outdoor public artwork in Coral Gables, FL, and an entrance sculpture for the new MGM National Harbor, MD. She installed a sculpture for the lobby of 50 West, New York, NY in July 2017. A permanent large-scale installation was inaugurated at Pier 27 on the Toronto waterfront in the fall of 2017. Currently she is represented by Marlborough Gallery, New York and Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin. She had her first solo exhibition of new sculptures with Marlborough in the fall of 2017. CARTER BURWELL CARTER Carter Burwell has composed the music for a number of feature films, including Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, Rob Roy, Fargo, The Spanish Prisoner, Gods and Monsters, Velvet Goldmine, Being John Malkovich, Before Night Falls, Adaptation, In Bruges, Twilight, True Grit, Anomalisa, Carol, Wonderstruck, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. His theater work includes the chamber opera The Celestial Alphabet Event and the Mabou Mines productions Mother and Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day. In 2005 he developed a concert work for text and music titled Theater of the New Ear, presented in New York, London, and Los Angeles. The text, by Joel and Ethan Coen and Charlie Kaufman, was performed by a dozen actors including Meryl Streep, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Hope Davis, Peter Dinklage, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The music was performed by the Parabola Ensemble, conducted by Burwell. HONOREE FORHONOREE PERFORMING ARTS// His dance compositions include the pieces The Return of Lot’s Wife, choreographed by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, and RABL, choreographed by Patrice Regnier. He has performed around the world with his own ensembles as well as others, such as The Harmonic Choir. His writing includes the essay Music at Six: Scoring the News Then and Now, published in the inaugural issue of Esopus magazine in 2003 and reprinted in Harper’s Magazine, and the essay No Country For Old Music in the 2013 Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics. While completing his B.A. at Harvard College he pursued independent study at the MIT Media Lab. After graduation, he was a senior computer scientist at Cold Spring Harbor Lab and the New York Institute of Technology. He has taught and lectured at The Sundance Institute, New York University, Columbia University, and Harvard University. ! The Board of Directors and Staff of Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies congratulates our beloved Board Member BOB COLACELLO on tonight’s award and thanks him for his extraordinary commitment to the arts The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is a public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of State dedicated to providing permanent works of American art for U.S.