Declaration of Independents
What: The Independent Curators International (ICI) Annual Benefit and Auction, this year honoring Miuccia Prada with the Leo Award and Italian art historian and critic Germano Celant with the Agnes Gund Curatorial Award.
When: Tuesday, November 19th
Where: Center548 in New York, which was tricked out with projection screens, courtesy of Artsy, that kept guests appraised of the silent auction bidding throughout the night. (The event raised $600,000 for the organization.)
Who: Agnes Gund, ICI Trustee Emerita who presented the awards; Sofia Coppola, Marina Abramovic, CHRISTO, Dasha Zhukova, Peter Brant and Stephanie Seymour, and Andres Serrano.
Why: Miuccia couldn’t make it, but no matter. Celant accepted her award on behalf of the Fondazione Prada.
Photos: Declaration of Independents
Germano Celant and Marina Abramovic
Amadeus Leopold
Stephanie Seymour and Robert Farrell
Nate Lowman, Sofia Coppola, and Svetlana Upsenkaya
Marina Abramovic, Kate Fowle, Renaud Proch, and DashaZhukova
Bridget Finn and Stacy Engman
The auction
Marina Abramovic and Agnes Gund
Nate Lowman and Michelle Maccarone
Jiajia Fen and Antoine Sargent
Amadeus Leopold
Sue Hostetler and Dustin Yellin
Renaud Proch, Germano Celant, and Agnes Gund
Christo and Kate Fowle
Andres Serrano and Irina Movmyga
Belinda Kielland, Noreen Ahmad, and Ann Cook