MoMA Opening Night Benefit

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MoMA Opening Night Benefit

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) hosted the Opening Night Benefit for The Armory Show last night following the fair’s preview. The event was held in the museum’s first floor and atrium and within 30 minutes, the place was packed. Guests were a mix of the young and hiply dressed, bespoke-suited art patrons, and Prada-wearing art professionals. In the atrium, Frank Stella’s work was lost to an overhead video projection that took up three walls. A Pernod absinthe bar boasted delightful, green cocktails with cucumber slices (that smelled, to us, of Good n’ Plenty candy). And the square, metallic bar in the center of the atrium offered popcorn, pork rinds (!), and edamame. Between snacks and drinks, attendees also perused the “Contemporary Art from the Collection” exhibition, open late for the fete.

A little after 10PM, singer-songwriter Kate Nash performed wearing a bold, black-and-white striped dress and oversized red bow atop her head. Nash, whose recent album is entitled My Best Friend Is You (Geffen), moved from playing the guitar to pounding away on a keyboard draped in filament lightbulbs.

Ticket sales from the bash and the early access preview to The Armory Show’s Pier 92 and 94 benefit exhibition programming at MoMA and MoMA PS1.

Photo by Tory Noll.