Dale Stewart reports from Washington Depot, Connecticut.Guests were shoehorned into the intimate two-room KMR Arts Gallery in Washington Depot on Friday, October 26, for a reception to celebrate the opening of Diane Arbus: Guggenheim Grants, 1963-1967. Patrons like authors Ann Leary and Candace Bushnell, pictured left, sipped white wine and overflowed onto the front porch to savor the crisp fall evening and discuss impending Hurricane Sandy. Likely one of the best private collections of Arbus’s revolutionary works, the exhibit included vintage prints such as "Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967," and several were from the groundbreaking 1967 New Documents show at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibit, a coup for any space, is on view through December 29.
Leon Hecht and Robert Pincus-Witten; Matt Root, author Danielle Ganek, and Ben Nickoll.
Ron Leal and Joseph Montebello; Pels Matthews and Joe Mustich.
Hollister House Garden'sGeorge Schoellkopf and photographer Gerald Incandela; jewelry designer Holly Shannon with Carolina Reid.
Hair maverick Michael diCesare, photo editor turned gallerist Kathy McCarver Root, and designer Ron Norsworthy.
Cinzia Marchesini and JoAnne Torti; Emily and Hicks Stone.
Mitchell Feinberg and Sara Crawford; Dr. Ruth Jaffe with Barbara Gold.
Mara and Dean Landis with Judy and Doug Hamilton.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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