Will Cotton and Parker Posey at the Tribeca Ball at the New York Academy of Art, Apr. 4, 2011
2011 Tribeca Ball
ARTISTS AND MODELS
Apr. 5, 2011
Socialites and celebrities go crazy for the New York Academy of Art’s annual Tribeca Ball, held this year on Monday night, Apr. 4, 2011, at the academy’s Tribeca headquarters at 111 Franklin Street.
The glamour is intense, especially for an art school devoted to the decidedly unhip arts of actually learning to paint and sculpt. Andy Warhol was a big supporter, which you could say proved that he was a square at heart.
Among the bold-faced names seated at the very table of your humble scribe were interior designer Jay Johnson, actress Leelee Sobieski and Matthew Settle, a star of the television show Gossip Girl. The charming Settle, who said he hadn’t yet started his art collection, almost missed dinner for spending too long visiting the NYAA’s four floors of artist studios.
He also revealed that photographer Laurie Simmons has a cameo on an upcoming episode. Mark your calendars; it’s Apr. 18, 2011.
Dinner at the Tribeca Ball at the New York Academy of Art, Apr. 4, 2011
Leelee Sobieski, her husband, designer Adam Kimmel, and Glenn O’Brien at the Tribeca Ball at the New York Academy of Art, Apr. 4, 2011
By the coat check, Stephen Shaheen’s limestone Eve, 2011, at the Tribeca Ball at the New York Academy of Art
On the fourth floor of the New York Academy of Art, a monumental drawing demonstration by Frank Porku
“Caricatures with Character” by Charlie Churchill at the New York Academy of Art Tribeca Ball, Apr. 4, 2011
Brooklyn artist Cecilia Roberts at work at the Tribeca Ball at the New York Academy of Art, Apr. 4, 2011
In the third floor sculpture studios at the New York Academy of Art, Alvaro Luna and a guest at the 2011 Tribeca Ball
The abject at the New York Academy of Art? Alexander Barton’s Strawberry Milkshake, 2011 (price $3,000)
“It’s all about the indirect attack!” Painter Jo Hay with her work at the New York Academy of Art
Value-for-the-money-works by students at the New York Academy of Art: Loving the Discus Thrower in a print by Imogen Slater (price, $70), and a nude by Joseph Ventura (price, $1,200)
Tun Ping Wang in his studio at the New York Academy of Art during the 2011 Tribeca Ball
Aliene de Souza Howell in her studio at the New York Academy of Art during the 2011 Tribeca Ball
