On Wednesday, June 6, the Whitney Museum of American Art played host to ART PARTY, a charitable event whose proceeds benefited the Whitney’s 40-year-old Independent Study Program, at Skylight Studios. The guestlist featured an array of celebrities who ran the gamut from Ivanka Trump and Kate Bosworth to Freddie Prinze Jr. and Moby. The music of DJ La Jauretsi powered the event while visual performances by Joshua Light Show and Bec Stupak dazzled guests with a spray of dreadlocks and fluid hula hoop movements. The affair’s dresscode, “Hippy Chic”, revealed refreshingly whimsical pieces by Hervé Léger worn by Arden Wohl, by ThreeAsFour worn by Genevieve Jones and, of course, a slew of damsels garbed in the host’s Max Azria summer frocks.
Sponsored by Sotheby’s and BCBG Max Azria, ART PARTY was organized by Manhattan Society, a philanthropic group whose primary goals include building a greater sense of community within New York City as well as aiding the city’s social, cultural and political arenas. --Andrew Eisen
Manhattan Society [Manhattan Society]
Whitney Contemporaries ART PARTY Benefit for the Whitney Museum of American Art
ART PARTY [Whitney.org]
