NIGHTLIGHT: GUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON CELEBRATES 26th ANNIVERSARY ACADEMY OF THE ARTS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS HONOREES: MARSHALL BRICKMAN, DICK CAVETT, ELIZABETH PEYTON AND LEWIS B. CULLMAN
Guild Hall, the arts center on eastern Long Island, has named the recipients of the 26th Anniversary Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards. The honorees are Dick Cavett for Performing Arts; Elizabeth Peyton for Visual Arts; Marshall Brickman for Literary Arts; and Lewis B. Cullman for Leadership and Philanthropic Endeavors. Whom You Know was delighted to attend the festivities and though Peachy Deegan has yet to make it out to Guild Hall, we think she'd love it because of the caliber of the people associated with Guild Hall that we've met at their Manhattan events. The benefit gala dinner was held this past Monday, March 7 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
Oh we just love Cipriani and the Bellinis there! Maybe someday they will have The Peachy Deegan....among the delightful people we encountered during cocktail hour were:
Barbara Jo Howard
Florence Fabricant, we met sipping Bellinis! We loved your books and highly recommended them:
Linda Lindenbaum, amazing black Oscar de la Renta jacket!
Hannah Pakula, cool drop earrings of graduated spheres!
Ingrid C. Aja, wearing a fabulous Tory Burch dress which made so much sense as Ingrid is clearly stylistically superior, being a Boston College graduate!
Elizabeth Cuevas, great necklace
Alec Baldwin
Frederico Manzano
Susan Vecsey
Peter M. Wolf
Elaine Hammond
The Master of Ceremonies was Bob Balaban, a member of Guild Hall’s board of trustees, who was honored last year for his work in the performing arts. The Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards were sponsored by Gavin Brown’s enterprise and co-sponsored by 1stdibs.
“The Awards annually celebrate the creativity of an outstanding group of artists and visionaries on the East End whose work has consistently delighted and whose commitment to the arts has inspired us,” said Roy Furman, president of Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts. “The election of these honorees by their peers, our 257 Academy members, speaks volumes for the depth of creative talent in our midst.”
“What began as an idea in 1985, to recognize the talent of those with ties to Eastern Long Island , has evolved into a long standing relationship yielding support and acknowledgement of our world-class, local artistic community,” adds Ruth Appelhof , executive director, Guild Hall.
Throughout the past twenty five years the Academy has honored both summer and year-round East End residents who have demonstrated excellence in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Some past recipients include: Steven Spielberg, Billy Joel, Elaine Stritch, Mel Brooks and Guild Hall board member Alec Baldwin for Performing Arts; Julian Schnabel, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, April Gornik and Chuck Close for Visual Arts; Kurt Vonnegut, E. L. Doctorow, Edward Albee, Joseph Heller and Joe Pintauro for Literary Arts; and Special Awards to Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, and Peter Jennings, to name a few.
Tickets to the 26th Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards start at $400 for young patrons (21-40 years old) and can be purchased by calling the Special Events Department at 631. 324.0806. Funds raised from the Award’s dinner benefit Guild Hall’s mission of celebrating the artistic spirit on the East End by educating, inspiring, and enriching diverse audiences with excellent and engaging year-round programming
Bob Balaban was the recipient of Guild Hall’s 2010 Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award for Performing Arts. This past fall he was elected to GH’s board of trustees and is an active member of the theater committee. He recently directed Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons in Georgia O’Keeffe (Lifetime). He received three 2008 Emmy Award nominations, two for directing and producing the HBO film Bernard and Doris, starring Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes, the third for his performance in Recount. Other directing credits include The Last Good Time (starring Armin Mueller Stahl and Maureen Stapleton) and Parents (with Randy Quaid and Sandy Dennis. He produced and co-starred in the award-winning film Gosford Park
Marshall Brickman Films: Sleeper, Annie Hall (four Academy Awards including screenplay and Best Picture), Manhattan (AA nomination, best screenplay), Manhattan Murder Mystery (co-author); Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister Mary Explains it All (writer/director). Television: The Johnny Carson Show, the Dick Cavett Show (head writer & producer, two Emmys). Mr. Brickman is the recipient of an Academy Award, a British Academy Award and two Emmys, plus other prizes worldwide. He entered show business as a musician; his recording (with Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance achieved gold status twice. Brickman, with John and Michelle Phillips, formed The New Journeymen, the transitional folk-rock group from which emerged “The Mamas and the Papas.” Mr. Brickman has published in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy, and other periodicals. Jersey Boys, his first venture into musical theater, won an Olivier and four Tonys, including Best Musical of 2006 and has spawned both national and international companies; The Addams Family, currently on Broadway, starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, will have both a national and international tour in the fall of 2011. Mr. Brickman is the 2006 recipient of the Writers Guild of America Ian McClellan Hunter Award for lifetime achievement in writing.
Dick Cavett the host of “The Dick Cavett Show” — which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on public television from 1977 to 1982 — Dick Cavett is the author, most recently, of "Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets.” The co-author of “Cavett” (1974) and “Eye on Cavett” (1983), he has also appeared on Broadway in “Otherwise Engaged,” “Into the Woods” and as narrator in “The Rocky Horror Show,” and has made guest appearances in movies and on TV shows including “Forrest Gump” and “The Simpsons.” His column appears in the Opinionator blog on The New York Times website. Mr. Cavett lives in New York City and Montauk, N.Y.
Lewis B. Cullman is frequently listed among the nation’s leading contributors to not-for-profit organizations. Major beneficiaries of his generosity include American Museum of Natural History (Cullman Hall of the Universe), New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts (Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center), Museum of Modern Art (Lewis B and Dorothy Cullman Education Center), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Botanical Garden, The Enterprise Foundation, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Yale University, Purdue University, The Joseph Papp Public Theater, Thirteen WNET, Mount Sinai Hospital, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Cancer Chemo Protection Center), New York Weill Cornell Medical Center (renovation of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories), American Academy in Rome, Human Rights Watch, and Planned Parenthood of New York City, Inc. He is Chairman Emeritus of Chess-in-the-Schools in New York City, a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a director of General American Investors Company, Inc., and was founder and CEO of Cullman Ventures, Inc., a diversified company. He is also the founder of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Child Development Center in Sidney, New York, and the author of Can’t Take It With You — The Art of Making and Giving Money (John Wiley & Sons) and the free booklet, How to Succeed in Fundraising by Really Trying. He and his late wife Dorothy were recipients of the New York City Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture. Among Mr. Cullman’s many charitable donations, is the underwriting of the Boots Lamb Education Center and all of Guild Hall’s educational programs which are made possible in part by The Lewis B. Cullman Education program in memory of Mr. Cullman’s, brother Joseph F. Cullman 3rd.
Elizabeth Peyton was born in 1965 in Danbury, Connecticut and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987 from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Peyton emerged as a vanguard voice in the return to narrative figuration in contemporary painting in the 1990’s, and is among the most celebrated painters of her generation. Working in painting, drawing, and print techniques, she is best known for portraits of fellow artists, friends, and cultural icons. In 2010, she will be featured in solo exhibitions at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; Opelvillen Foundation, Rüsselsheim; and Gallery Met, New York City. Previously, her works have been featured in more than 50 solo exhibitions and dozens of group shows. They are included in major public collections such as the Guggenheim, New York; MoMA, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum, New York.
Monday, March 7
Guild Hall 26th Anniversary Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Awards & Dinner
At Cipriani 42nd Street
6:30 Cocktails / 7:30 Dinner
Honoring Dick Cavett for Performing Arts; Elizabeth Peyton for Visual Arts; Marshall Brickman for Literary Arts; and Lewis B. Cullman for Leadership with Bob Balaban as event Master of Ceremonies. Alec Baldwin is Honorary Chair.
Guild Hall Special Events 631.324.0806 ext 13 or 14 or visit www.GuildHall.org
Founded 80 years ago, Guild Hall is the year-round arts center wholly dedicated to serving the residents, members, families, and artists of the East End and offering them, as well as visitors and tourists, enriching experiences by presenting relevant and meaningful programs in the visual and performing arts, working in collaboration with artists, and providing a meeting place for the community. For more information about the Museum, Theater and Education programming and to become a member, visit www.GuildHall.org
