AFTA Journal

December 2005

N THE NEWS

2005 FRIENDS OF THE ARTS PARTY A SUCCESS
Nearly 300 people attended the third annual Friends of the Arts Party on November 29 at Christie's. Through the generosity of our sponsors and the contributions made by our supporters, we raised $30,570. That, combined with contributions made in memory of Laurie McLendon, an early supporter of the Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Fellowship, will make possible our arts advocacy work in the coming year. We thank our sponsors: Christie's, Kiss My Face, NYCharities.org, Pasternak Wine Imports/Los Vascos, Patrick McMullan Company, Ralph Lauren, Svedka and The Week.


LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) has announced a new cultural enhancement grant program totaling $35 million. The purpose is "strengthening existing and creating new cultural facilities in Lower Manhattan." To assist in awarding the grants, the LMDC has appointed a five-member advisory panel, which includes Richard Schwartz, chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts; Kate D. Levin, commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; Tom Finkelpearl, executive director of the Queens Museum of Art; Eddie Bayardelle, director of philanthropy, Merrill Lynch & Co; and Anita Contini, senior vice president and director of Corporate and Public Affairs, CIT Group. The first grant is a $10 million award to be used for the creation of the Drawing Center's new downtown facility. For more information potential applicants should visit www.RenewNYC.com, or call (212) 587-9237.


NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS AWARDED TO FIVE NEW YORKERS

In an Oval Office ceremony at the White House on November 10, President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush announced the recipients of the 2005 National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government. Among the ten recipients were five New Yorkers, including Louis Auchincloss, author; James DePreist, conductor; Leonard Garment, arts patron and advocate; Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter and founding artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center; and Tina Ramirez, founder and artistic director of Ballet Hispánico. The other recipients were Paquito D'Rivera, jazz musician/composer/writer, North Bergen, NJ; Robert Duvall, actor, Plains, VA; Ollie Johnston, film animator and artist, Burbank, CA; Dolly Parton, singer/songwriter, Pigeon Forge, TN; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, school of fine arts/museum, Philadelphia, PA. For more information, click here.

PEOPLE

Rochelle Steiner is the new director of the Public Art Fund, effective February 6. Ms. Steiner is the former chief curator of the Serpentine Gallery in London.

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WORLD AIDS DAY DEC 1

World AIDS Day, held each year on December 1, is an opportunity to reflect upon the impact of AIDS on our lives and the arts. In the coming weeks, concerts, performances, discussions and exhibitions have been organized across the globe to remember the cultural loss created by AIDS. Among the many offerings here in New York are Eric Rhein's Leaf Project at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, in which 170 wire drawings of fallen autumn leaves each represent a person the artist knew who died from AIDS (December 1-January 3); in honor of Robert Beers, the former executive assistant in film exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art who died of AIDS, screenings of Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (December 1, 8:30 pm and December 2, 5:30 pm) and Carl Dreye's Ordet (The Word) (December 1, 6 pm and December 7, 8:15 pm) at the Museum of Modern Art; and Move Against AIDS: The AIDS Dance-a-thon at the Manhattan Center with guest DJs such as Junior Vasquez and performers/hosts such as Jody Watley (December 3, 7 pm). Other New York events include:

Picturing Hope: Through Their Eyes Photos taken by children in India offer a closer look at how the global HIV/AIDS epidemic is shaping everyday lives. On view through January 8 at the Asia Society and Museum (725 Park Avenue, between 70th and 71st Streets, Manhattan). www.asiasociety.org

Release II Works by artists such as Luis Carle, Niccolo Cataldi, Jose Luis Cortes, Edwin Lacend, Kenneth Mitchell, Ricardo Morin and Clifford Smithare. On view through February 18 at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn). www.mocada.org

AIDS Quilt Portions of the quilt will be displayed in venues across the city throughout December and January. To find out about a quilt exhibit near you, visit www.aidsquilt.com.

Screening HIV A night of new(ish) film and video considering HIV and the AIDS pandemic. December 1, 7 pm at Artists Space, 38 Greene Street (between Broome and Grand Streets, Manhattan). www.artistsspace.org

Keeping Our Promise: A World AIDS Day Event A screening of We Will Not Die Like Dogs with spoken word performances by the youth of Urban Word NYC is followed by a Q&A with global AIDS experts, filmmakers and poets. December 1, 7:30 pm at the International Center for Tolerance Education (25 Washington Street, 4th floor, Brooklyn). $10. www.governessfilms.com/aids

World AIDS Day Commemoration An Evening of Music and Reflection presented by UNAIDS. December 1, 7:30 pm at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan). www.unaids.org

A Closer Walk A screening of Robert Bilheimer's film, the first to provide a definitive portrayal of humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. December 1, 8 pm at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, Manhattan). $75. www.filmlinc.com

[FRAMING AIDS] The Queens Media Arts Development organization presents a film screening and an educational poster exhibition. December 4, 2 pm at Elmhurst Hospital Center (79-01 Broadway, between 82nd Street and Baxter Avenue, Queens). Free. www.qmad.org

Force of Nature A panel discussion on the art and activism of the late Frank Moore, who died in 2002 at the age of 48. December 6, 7 pm at the School of the Visual Arts (209 East 23rd Street, 3rd floor, Manhattan). $10. www.schoolofvisualarts.edu

Dance From the Heart: Dancers Responding to AIDS Performances by artists such as Carlos Lopez, American Ballet Theatre; the Cedar Lake Ensemble; Complexions Contemporary Ballet; Doug Varone and Dancers; Grandiva; Lar Lubovitch Dance Company; MOMIX; and Patricia Baker, Pacific Northwest Ballet. December 12, 7 pm at the Cedar Lake Theater (547 West 26th Street at Eleventh Avenue, Manhattan). $150. www.dradance.org

Gerald Busby's 70th Birthday Celebration A concert featuring recent works by composer Gerald Busby. December 18, 8:30 pm at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall (881 Seventh Avenue at 57th Street, Manhattan). $15-$25. www.carnegiehall.org

To learn more about the cultural impact of AIDS, visit the Alliance's Estate Project for Artists with AIDS at www.artistswithaids.org.

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