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TEL
AVIV MUSEUM
OF ART
It’s His Sculpture So
He Can If He Wants To
Story and Photos by Tim Boxer
 SRAELI
artist Menashe Kadishman, 72, once sold a sculpture to a
gentleman in the
Hamptons. He wanted to see it displayed so Jerome Stern picked him
up in a Fiat. The plump artist was double the weight then, but he
managed to squeeze into the car.
“I knew he had to go to the bathroom, but
he said he’d wait,” Stern related at a dinner of American
Friends of the
Tel
Aviv
Museum
that honored Kadishman as artist of the year.
“It took three hours to get to the estate
on
Dune Road
,” said Stern, who was honorary dinner co-chair with his wife Ellen.
“We got out – actually I pulled him out
– and he stood in front of the sculpture, unzipped his pants and
went wee wee.”
The Chinese houseman ran out shouting,
“What are you doing?”
Menashe waved him off: “It’s my
sculpture!”
Mel Atlas and Lillian Heidenberg
served as co-chairs; Ellen and Jerome Stern were
honorary chairpersons of the Gala of the Arts dinner at the St.
Regis in New York. The event also honored Ruth and Gerard Daniel as
patrons of the arts.
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