Premier Plate Art & Art for Collectors AIR CULINAIRE’S PREMIER PLATE PHILANTHROPIC EFFORTS BY KATHERINE SLOAN | PHOTOGRAPHED BY DEBBIE DICKINSON
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ne might wonder: where do the owners of private jets collect art? Well, in New York City, of course! Air Culinaire hosted a Celebrity Chef Tasting and a Post-Modern and Modern Art Exhibition for Heavenly Harvest and the Wendy English Breast Cancer Research Foundation this October. In the words of Maria Callas: “I don’t need the money, dear. I work for
art.” This sentiment seems to ring true for this particular cause as it was done for the sake of art and, most importantly, philanthropy. In the new neighborhood of Hudson Yards— dubbed a “millionaire’s playground”— this gorgeous artful exhibition was a part of the Premier Plate event and took place in order to raise funds for breast cancer research and to provide healthy food for everyone because,
as we all know, when one is privileged and lucky enough to have more, one should give more. In what once was a sort of wasteland for parked subway cars (and partially still is), there is now architecture that the whole city is raving about along with designer shops and shiny skyscrapers. High up on the 51st floor, there was impressive and nearly priceless art for sale by the likes of legendary modernist genius Pablo Picasso, Vaclav Vytlacil, Ron Ferri and surrealist
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