BWW Art News: MoMA Announces 'Party in the Garden', 6/1

The Museum of Modern Art's Party in the Garden, a benefit event on June 1, will honor collection artists Huma Bhabha, Mark Bradford, and Brice Marden, along with philanthropists Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman and Sally and Wynn Kramarsky. In recognition of their prolonged commitment to culture, the arts, and MoMA, this year's honorees are being celebrated for their artistry and philanthropy. Co-chairs of the event are Susan and Michael Dell, Agnes Gund, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Catie and Donald Marron, and Amy and John Phelan. Honorary co-chairs are Leon D. Black, Marie-Josée Kravis and Jerry I. Speyer.

This year's Party in the Garden will feature a performance by internationally acclaimed pop artist Robyn. Robyn has released four albums and two EPs, been nominated for three Grammys, performed on Saturday Night Live, and toured extensively, reaching a dedicated audience around the world. Robyn, who will perform with her live band, has asked 10 different producers/DJs to remix material from throughout her catalog for the four shows she is doing this summer-including headlining New York's Governor's Ball Festival. The shows will also include new music and material from her recent project La Bagatelle Magique.

Following Robyn's performance, producer and experimental pop artist Matthew Dear will close out the night with a DJ set. Dear has been commissioned to work with prominent musicians like The XX, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, Hot Chip, and The Chemical Brothers, and, most recently, he performed at the 2016 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April. Both performances at Party in the Garden will take place in MoMA's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden as part of the gala's After-Party, which runs from 9:00 p.m. to midnight.

Party in the Garden benefits MoMA's Annual Fund and the maintenance of The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The event also supports the Museum's general operating fund, helping to make possible the Museum's education programs and the care, study, and exhibition of its collection.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting moma.org/partyinthegarden2016, calling MoMA's Department of Special Programming and Events at (212) 708-9680, or e-mailing specialevents@moma.org.