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Event searchlights crisscrossed the darkened sky, swooping over the table so that bits of light glinted off the wine glass edges. Soon the assortment of glassware was filled, to varying degrees, with liquid in different hues of ruby red and gold.

Master sommelier Jay Fletcher walked the crowd through the wines being served, describing a French Chablis as having come from “cold, choppy soil” and being somewhat “nervy.” (It was, indeed, quite spirited.) That meant about 70 empty wine glasses, of varying heights and shapes, clustered together and blanketing each tabletop at the start of the meal. The four-course dinner, by Untitled Events, included no less than seven wine pairings, with separate glasses for each pour. The event, she added, raised more than $2.1 million for the museum - more than double what the museum raised at its gala last year.īut nothing says utopia like a lavish, open-air wine pairing on a crisp fall evening (guests were given blankets, a nice touch). “What if we allow ourselves the incredible gift of connecting with our truest and deepest desires? What if we believe that we are not just able or entitled to do so, but that we know that by granting ourselves this gift of connection, that we make the world better - better for ourselves, for our partners, for our children, for the planet? What if this space of art encourages and reinforces this notion?” “What if we ask ourselves, in every moment of every hour of every day for the rest of our lives, ‘what would I love?’” she said. “So to be able to return and collaborate again is deeply satisfying,” he said.Īt the start of dinner, outdoors on the terrace, Zuckerman welcomed the crowd.

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The two worked together on his first museum show, “Psychic Windows,” when she was a curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2002. The New York-based artist is from Los Angeles - he grew up in Baldwin Hills - but also, Zuckerman is an old friend of 20 years.

The evening, Biggers added, felt like a homecoming in more ways than one. Every community needs to have their lighthouse, their beacon, and it’s interesting that there actually is a root system here that’s very deep.” “So many of the artists of the light and space movement - Chris Burden, Robert Irwin - all went to school down here. “It’s interesting how under-looked the influence of UC Irvine and Orange County has been for seminal art,” he said. Heading into the exhibitions, Aitken noted the history of the area as it relates to the museum.

Guests were treated to a preview of the museum’s opening exhibitions, which included a survey of work by 81-year-old, New York-based sculptor Eversley a show of work by “13 pioneering female artists” in OCMA’s collection that pays homage to the museum’s 13 female founders and a resurrection of the museum’s long-running California Biennial.

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“We’re open at 10:00 a.m., six days a week, and the fact that we have free general admission for the first decade, people keep saying, ‘Really? It’s free?’ We know that contemporary art can be weird or scary for people, so to remove as many barriers to entry as possible, it’s just a dream come true.”Īmong the artists in attendance - many of whom, Zuckerman said, she’s known more than half her life - were Sanford Biggers, Fred Eversley, Alexandra Grant, Doug Aitken, Lily Stockman, Fred Tomaselli and Peter Shelton. “As the last piece of the cultural puzzle here on the Segerstrom campus, we’re able to animate and activate this space in a way that’s never been possible,” she said of the new museum building. The evening for her was “thrilling,” she said. McNeill, and he wore a Scottish tartan.) Then Zuckerman turned serious. Museum Director Heidi Zuckerman joked that her midnight blue, tiered tulle dress was “prom dress utopia” because “my boyfriend and I feel like teenagers together.” (His name was J.P. The scene was punctuated by colorful, pre-dinner cocktails, such as a vodka-spiked lemonade that morphed from clear to purple thanks to the organic butterfly pea flower floating in each glass. All of which made for a festive inauguration for Costa Mesa’s newest neighbor, which completes the campus at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

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