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PARRISH MUSEUM
Midsummer
Party Toasts
Plans
For New Museum
Story by
Edward T. Callaghan
 HE
Parrish Museum, long one of the most treasured jewels on Long
Island’s East End, unveiled plans at a midsummer party for the
construction of a new building in Water Mill, adjacent to the
famed Duck Walk Vineyard.
The board recently selected Herzog and
de Meuron to create the new 80,000 square foot facility,
which will not only include a theater and workshops for
educational programs but also serve as an extraordinary showcase
for its collections of works by legendary local artists such as Fairfield
Porter, Childe Hassam, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg and
William Merritt Chase.
Not surprisingly, the lavishly decorated tent
in the Arboretum was full to overflowing with artists and patrons.
Honorary co-chairs Debbie Bancroft, Beth Rudin De Woody, Andrea
Glimcher, Katherina Otto Bernstein and Bettina Burda
clearly used their charm to bring in such stellar talents as Chuck
Close, Jane Wilson, Donald Sultan, Jane Freilicher, Robert Wilson,
Jack Youngerman, Michael Perez and Dorothy Lichtenstein.
Scores of the Parrish’s most stalwart
supporters – many of them decked out in the green and white
theme of the evening – danced the night away including Somers
White and Johnathan Farkas, Mildred Brinn, Patricia
Patterson, Bettina Zilkha, Douglas Hannant, Lucia Hwong Gordon,
Jeffrey and Linda Chodrow, Nathan Bernstein, Soprano’s
star Lorraine Bracco, Stacey Okun-Mindich, Allison Morrow,
David Wassong and Tim Davis.
Reed Krakoff and his lovely wife Delphine,
the evening’s co-chairs, took well-deserved kudos for
the décor. Reed, creative director of Coach, the evening’s
sponsor, was positively aglow.
Also dancing into the wee hours were Kimberley
McSparran, John Wegorzewski, Anne De Brigard, David Nadal, WVVH’s
top producer, Tinsley Mortimer and R. Couri Hay.
Trudy Kramer, the
museum’s executive director, was thrilled with having helmed yet
another memorable evening which this year raised over $800,000 for
special educational programs.
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