SFMOMA patrons rocked 75th birthday bash
- May 17, 2010 14:58
Nearly 1,200 glittering guests feted the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's first seventy-five years on Friday. The art museum hosted 550 gallerists, museum directors, artists and art collectors at a $50,000-a-table private dinner and several hundred more patrons came for the late night afterparty.
Beleaguered billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, 26, whose Facebook is under fire for privacy issues, arrived dressed in a zipped hoodie. He joined luminaries such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi; the new director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeffrey Deitch; and former Secretary of State George Shultz whose wife, Charlotte, is a SFMOMA Trustee.
The family of Gap retail founders Doris and the late Don Fisher were well-represented. The Fisher family has leased 1,100 artworks to SFMOMA for which the museum is building a new wing.
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![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
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