Arguably a highlight of the spring party season, MoMA’s annual Party in the Garden tends to attract an eclectic crowd of not only philanthropists, financiers and patrons of the arts but also artists, collectors, celebrities, art world wonks and sundry socialites. The event is, of course, a fundraiser—one specifically benefitting the Museum of Modern Art’s general operating fund—though as these soirees go, its reputation for ebullience along with its storied afterparty often draws a more mixed crowd than your typical charity event.
The evening began in the celebrated Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden with cocktails and progressed to a sit-down dinner in the Agnes Gund Garden Lobby where the 2024 Party in the Garden honorees, artists LaToya Ruby Frazier, Joan Jonas, and Refik Anadol and philanthropist Ronnie Heyman, were given their due. From there, revelers made their way back to the sculpture garden for the aforementioned afterparty, where guests enjoyed an intimate but high-energy concert by pop singer FLETCHER (currently on tour) and DJ sets by Heron Preston and METTE.
In attendance were some familiar faces at events like these, including Alexandre and Géraldine Arnault, Stavros Niarchos II and Dasha Zhukova. Art insiders who made an appearance at the dinner, afterparty or both included curator Connie Butler, The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Thelma Golden, art philanthropist Agnes Gund, gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, patron and collector Sarah Arison and art historian and curator Scott Rothkopf. Among the artists at MoMA’s Party in the Garden were Mickalene Thomas, Derrick Adams, Simone Leigh, Vija Celmins, Adam Pendleton, Doug Aitken, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon and Julie Mehretu, who designed BMW’s latest Art Car. And designer Gabriela Hearst, filmmaker and entrepreneur Andrew Jarecki, television personality Gayle King, author Rachel Kushner and Ford Foundation president Darren Walker.
Glenn Ligon, Jo Carole Lauder and Ronald Lauder
Gayle King
Agnes Gund, Thelma Golden and Joan Jonas
Bonnie Lautenberg and Steve Leber
KAWS and Julia Chiang
Anna Alimani
Naima Green, Sable Smith and Nicole Fleetwood
Oded Halahmy and James Snyder
Arlene Shechet
Nikki Kynard and Aku Orraca-Tetteh
Laura Rivera Ayala and Avery White
Amanda Fuhrman, Glenn Fuhrman, Dejinay reed and Justin Wadlington
Judy Hart Angelo and Larry Leeds
Sarah Arison
Denise Rollandi, Peter Kraus, Jill Kraus, Ben Kraus
Angel Zheng and Alena Kostromina
Roxana Marcoci and Cristian Alexa
Jeffrey Deitch, Jerry Speyer and Paula Crown
Bruce Hatt and Lonti Ebers
Todd White and Cameron Carani
Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç
Sharon Coplan Hurowitz
Amy O’neil and Christophe Cherix
James Moore and Kara Moore
Diamantis Xylas, Connie Butler, Robert Soros and George Petrocheillos
Jack Shear
Leo Villareal and Yvonne Force Villareal
Elizabeth Sulcer
Ward Blum and Ronnie Heyman
Sofia Drakotos, Michael Espiritu, Dana Slakoff and Alda Gordon
