PAST HONOREES & SPEAKERS
2023
Honorees: Michael Findlay, Director of Acquavella Galleries
Introduction: Michael Royce, Executive Director, New York Foundation for the Arts
In Conversation: Judd Tully, Art Critic and Journalist
2022
Honorees: Nancy Olnick & Giorgio Spanu, Co-founders, Magazzino Italian Art Foundation
Keynote Speaker: Emily Braun, Ph.D, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
In Conversation: Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art
2019
Honoree: Johnnetta Betsch Cole, PhD, and Mickalene Thomas, artist
In Conversation, Moderated by: Lucy Kaylin, Editor in Chief, O, The Oprah Magazine
2018
Honoree: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries
Video Introduction: Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Bloomberg LP. New York City Mayor 2002-2013
Introduction by: Patricia E. Harris, Chief Executive Officer, Bloomberg Philanthropies
In Conversation with: Ian Cheng, Artist
2017
Honoree: Jeffrey Deitch, Curator and Dealer
Introduction by: Jeff Koons, Artist
In Conversation with: Josh Baer, Art Advisor, Baer Faxt
2016
Honoree: Frank Stella, Artist
Keynote Speaker: Thomas Crow, Ph.D., Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art; Associate Provost for the Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
In Conversation with: Lindsay Pollock, Editor in Chief, Art in America
2015
Honoree: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Artists,
Keynote Speaker: Robert Storr, Dean, School of Art, Yale University School of Art
2014
Honoree: Peter Schjeldahl, Art Critic, The New Yorker
Keynote Speaker: Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
In conversation with: Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic, The New York Times
2013
Honoree: Ai Weiwei, Artist and Activist
Keynote Speaker: Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art
Remarks: Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, New York UniversIty School of Law
2012
Honoree: Linda Nochlin, Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts/NYU
Keynote Speaker: Tamar Garb, Professor in the History of Art, UCL
In conversation with: Elizabeth Baker, Editor at Large, Art in America, NY
Remarks: Agnes Gund, President Emerita, Museum of Modern Art
2011
Honoree: Arne Glimcher, Founder and President, Pace Gallery, NY
In conversation with: Lindsay Pollock, Editor, Art in America, NY
Remarks: Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
2010
Honoree: Martin Z. Margulies, Collector and Philanthropist, Miami, FL
In conversation with: Henry Buhl, Collector and Philanthropist, NY
Conversation moderator: Lindsay Pollock, Writer, Reporter, NY
Remarks: James Rosenquist, Artist, NY
2009
Honoree: Thomas Krens, Senior Advisor, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NY
Speaker: Jeff Koons, Artist, NY
2008
Honoree: John Richardson, Art Historian and Biographer, NY
Speaker: Rosamond Bernier, Art Historian, NY
Remarks: Geza von Habsburg, Faberge Curatorial Director, NY
Remarks: David Nash, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, NY
2007
Honoree: Wendell D. Garrett, Senior Consultant, Sotheby’s, NY
Keynote Speaker: Carrie Rebora Barratt, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Remarks: Morrison H. Heckscher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
2006
Honorees: Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Artists, NY
Keynote Speaker: Charles Hill, Private Investigator, Hill Art Risk, London
Presentation: Dodie Kazanjian, Arts Editor, Vogue Magazine, NY
Remarks: Suzanne Smeaton, Gallery Director, Eli Wilner & Co., NY
2005
Honoree: Dr. Susan Weber, Bard Graduate Center, NY
Keynote Speaker: Kimberly Camp, Executive Director, Barnes Foundation, PA
