


CINDY WEBER- CLEARY, left, and DANA BUCHMAN. April 23: Promise Project, which helps children with learning disabilities, had its benefit fete at the Metropolitan Pavilion. April 24: Stony Brook University had an awards dinner at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers honoring Alan Alda. LEE, JESS DANNHAUSER, GEORGIA WALL and JOHN SARGENT. April 23: Graham Windham Services held a benefit dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. JOEL SHAPIRO, an honoree, and CHRIS STERN HYMAN. April 23: The Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York had a reception at the Museum of ModernĪrt. MARY VAN PELT, left, and KAMIE LIGHTBURN. 30.įrom left, ANGELICA COMPAGNO, LILIANA CAVENDISH and MR. Īpril 23: The Horticultural Society of New York awards dinner dance honored Charles Masson, the restaurateur, and the artist Hunt Slonem at 135 West 18th Street. From left, VIK MUNIZ, WANGECHI MUTU and ROXY PAINE. Lehman, center, with the award recipients. The 16 artists who designed the tables are introduced. LEHMAN, left, the museum’s director, and MARTY MARKOWITZ,īrooklyn borough president. At 16 long tables in the Beaux-Arts Court, each designed by a Brooklyn artist, constructions over the tablesĪcted as centerpieces in which artists “served” a papier- mâché octopus and ostrich. April 24: The Brooklyn Museum Artists Ball honored Barbara Knowles Debs. April 25: Pratt Institute’sįashion awards at 548 West 22d Street honored the designer Thom Browne. From left, TINA LUNDGREN, an honoree, ROBERT KRAFT and RICKI LANDER. VICTOR CRUZ, an honoree, and ELAINA WATLEY. April 22: The awards dinner of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City drew someġ,000 guests to the Waldorf-Astoria. From left, BARBARA REGNA, DIMONDO and BETTINA BENNETT. LUKE MCGEE and GABRIELLE RAYMOND and Theodore Roosevelt in bronze. April 18: Some 700 guests attended the American Museum of Natural History’s junior dinner dance. From left, ELLEN NEWHOUSE, JAMES HUNIFORD, an honoree, and CHARLES

AprilĢ4: Housing Works held a preview dinner at Metropolitan Pavilion for its designer room settings items in the settings were sold the next day. From left, LAUREN VERONIS, PERRI PELTZ and MARLENE HESS. LISA SCHIFF at the Elizabeth Taylor table. Inflatable Esther Williamses in the pool. The 290 guests sat at tables named for famous American women.

Menu items were set out in the kitchen self-serve style. PHOTOS: April 21: The Cancer Research Institute presented its 33rd benefit party at the Four Seasons restaurant. Organizations honored some of their favorite people with awards, food and dancing.
