- Arts and Entertainment
- New York Junior League: "2008 Spring Auction, The Future is Green'"
- The St. George's Society’s 2008 English Ball of the Roses
- 12th Annual ACRIA Holiday Dinner
- Auction
- New York Junior League: "2008 Spring Auction, The Future is Green'"
- City Harvest: The Practical Magic Ball 2007
- Blue Jean Ball, the 15th Annual Children's Aid Society's Associates Council gala
- Cocktail Reception
- 2008 Women in Need Annual Dinner
- The St. George's Society’s 2008 English Ball of the Roses
- See the Desert Bloom: JNFuture in the Garden of Eden
- Concert or Performance
- BCRF The Hot Pink Party Goes Cool
- Design Cares presents A Night of a Thousand Lights to benefit the St. Jude Childrens Hospital
- 12th Annual ACRIA Holiday Dinner
- Dinner
- City Harvest: The Practical Magic Ball 2007
- 12th Annual ACRIA Holiday Dinner
- BCRF The Hot Pink Party Goes Cool
- Fundraiser
- 12th Annual ACRIA Holiday Dinner
- Annual Black Tie & Black Jack Casino Night benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS).
- New York Junior League: "2008 Spring Auction, The Future is Green'"
- Gala
- Girls Quest's April in Paris Benefit
- The Brighter Futures Society presents...Le Grande Spectacle
- Healthcorps “The Enchanted Garden“ Gala
- Happy Hour
- Migdal Ohr Young Leadership cocktail party at Mosaic
- Heard it Through the Grapevine: An Evening of Wine Tasting
- Museum, Gallery or Exhibit
- The New York Historical Society spring gala: A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Paris
- Frick Collection Young Fellows Ball
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renowned Costume Institute Gala
05/05/2008 - By The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes in Giorgio Armani
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renowned Costume Institute Gala – the annual
black-tie dinner to benefit the Museum’s Costume Institute – takes place on May 5,
2008, celebrating the exhibition Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, which will be
on viewThe 750 dinner guests arrived at the Metropolitan Museum at 7:00 p.m. for an
inaugural viewing of the exhibition and cocktails in the Museum’s Carroll and
Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court. Dinner will follow at around 8:30 p.m.
at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing.
Gala Evening Celebrates Superheroes
The Metropolitan Museum gratefully acknowledges Stephanie Winston Wolkoff of
Vogue for her invaluable organizational efforts on behalf of the event.
Décor
The décor for the evening was inspired by the larger-than-life dynamism of
superheroes. As guests entered the Museum’s Great Hall, they were confronted by three superhero figures looming nearly 20 feet high – Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman – made of high-density foam and painted to resemble monumental sculptures. A red carpet will led the guests through an allée of white dogwood trees to the exhibition, then on to cocktails in the Petrie Court and dinner at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing.
The Temple of Dendur room was transformed for the dinner into an
evocation of Superman’s Arctic Fortress of Solitude, with huge “ice crystals”
jutting from the pool of water surrounding the ancient Egyptian temple. A
footbridge provides the guests with a path over the water to their tables, and
thousands of glimmering white lights cast reflections throughout the room,
completing the effect of Superman’s otherworldly lair.
The design for the gala evening was created by Nathan Crowley and Raul Avila.
**Super Heroes is a registered trademark jointly owned by DC Comics and Marvel
Characters, Inc. Photos: Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Don Pollard
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