Cocktails for arts: Museums compete for young patrons - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune

Cocktails for arts: Museums compete for young patrons - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune: "Cocktails for arts: Museums compete for young patrons
By Dana Vachon The New York Times

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2006
Agantlet of paparazzi flanked the entrance to the Guggenheim on the night of the museum's annual Young Collectors Council gala last month. More than 600 young art patrons slowly made their way past the flashbulbs into the main hall, which over the previous 40 hours had been adorned with hundreds of yards of burgundy draperies, 1,000 long-stemmed roses and 6 life-size mechanical bulls on pedestals rising into the air. A platoon of 20 waiters in black tie awaited the guests with 180 bottles of Champagne and 144 bottles of vodka.