Jennifer Duncan, Bob Colacello and Eleanor Acquavella
Artist Don Gummer with Secretary of State John F. Kerry
Virginia Coleman, Eden Rafshoon and Sophie l’Hélias Delattre
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Vera and Donald Blinken
FOUNDATION FOR ART AND PRESERVATION IN EMBASSIES U.S. Department of State PHOTOS COURTESY OF FOUNDATION FOR ART AND PRESERVATION IN EMBASSIES
DIPLOMATIC CRAFT: Patrons and philanthropists joined Secretary of State John F. Kerry to honor famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the latest recipient of the Foundation for Arts and Preservation in Embassies’ prestigious Annenberg Award for Diplomacy through the Arts. After calling art the “link of universal qualities that unite us together,” Ma eschewed further words to play his “Appalachia Waltz” and a “Mongolian folk tune” for his rapt audience. MAJOR DONORS: After noting FAPE’s $85 million gift of art and funds to U.S. embassies and ambassadorial residences over the years, Kerry presided over the unveiling of recent contributions by artists Don Gummer, Jeff Koons, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Cindy Sherman and Bre Weston. VIEW ALL THE PHOTOS AT WWW WASHINGTONLIFE COM
Artist Jeff Koons with his print “Play-doh”
Heather Watts, Meryl Streep and Damian Woetzel
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Theaster Gates, Molly Donovan, Yo-Yo Ma and Darren Walker
Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Sharon Rockefeller
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