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The Art of Dining: Cocktails, Carousels, & Cuisine

Thursday, January 25, 2018

6 pm EST

Tables set for The Art of Dining: Cocktails, Carousels, & Cuisine. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Albright-Knox Members are invited to engaging and informative evening of cocktails, carousels, and culinary delights. Beverages, hors d’oeuvres, and dinner are prepared by top area chefs, led by celebrated chef extraordinaire Mike Andrzejewski of Seabar. Guest chefs include Chef Mark Hutchinson of Hutch’s, Chef Mike Dimmer of Marble + Rye, and Chef Ross Warhol of Oliver's.

6 pm Cocktails and Carousels

7:30 pm Seated Dinner with Champagne and Wines from Moët Hennessy USA


This evening will engage all five of your senses. The cocktail reception will feature champagne and wines from Moët Hennessy USA and a specialty beer bar from North American Breweries. A special guest will share the health benefits of more than 25 varieties of herbal teas, which will be available to smell and taste. As part of the evening, guests will receive exclusive after-hours access to works including Lucas Samaras’s Mirrored Room, Ernesto Neto’s SoundWay, James Turrell’s Gap from the series “Tiny Town,” Ronald Ventura’s Carousel, and Takashi Murakami’s immersive painting installation.

This event is sold out. For additional information about sponsorships, please contact JoAnne Will-Kaminski at 716.270.8238 or jwill-kaminski@albrightknox.org.

This annual fundraiser is open to all Albright-Knox Members with limited seating. All proceeds benefit the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. 

Art of Dining chefs in front of Arshile Gorky's The Liver Is the Cock's Comb, 1944 (Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery). Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Tables set for The Art of Dining: Cocktails, Carousels, & Cuisine. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Thank you to our Art of Dining sponsor Moët Hennessy USA. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining co-chairs in front of Jehan Georges Vibert's The Marvelous Sauce, ca. 1890 (Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery). Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests with Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Untitled (Water), 1995 (Collection the Baltimore Museum of Art), in the special exhibition Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests in the special exhibition Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests with Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Untitled (Water), 1995, in the special exhibition Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Albright-Knox Deputy Director Joe Lin-Hill (second from left) with Art of Dining guests in front of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Untitled (Water), 1995, in the special exhibition Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests with Nam June Paik's Piano Piece, 1993 (Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery), in Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Albright-Knox Events Coordinator JoAnne Will-Kaminski (left) with Art of Dining guests in front of Ronald Ventura's Carousel, 2016, in Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests in Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests in Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests in Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests in Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests in Takashi Murakami: The Deep End of the Universe. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests in Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Art of Dining guests in AK Café. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Event Sponsors

Thank you to our generous sponsors for making this evening possible.

Presenting Sponsor

Mr. Donald E. Will

Supporting Sponsors

Eric Mower + Associates
Orchard Park Pediatrics &
Young Adult Medicine

Roberta and Michael Joseph

 

Benefactors

Joyce and Stuart Angert
Kathie A. Keller
Ross Eye Institute
Tesori Belli