15 Minutes Magazine - Power Benefits: TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART

Donald Sultan with sister Terrie Sultan, director of
the Parrish Museum in Southampton, NY

Martin and Susan Sanders

Philip Pearlstein and one of his paintings
Dana and Jacqueline Bentata, lawyers in
Caracas, Venezuela

Michael Cohn and Dominique Levy, honorees

Seymour Reich and Mordechai Omer

TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART
Museum To Double Its Space
With New Building Next year

Story and Photos by Tim Boxer

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USAN SANDERS, co-chairman with her husband Martin of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art gala dinner at the Metropolitan Club, looked lovingly at her husband as she recited from the Book of Ruth: "Where you go I will go, where you live I will live, your people are my people, your God is my God, and where you die I will die."

"After that," Martin exclaimed, "the only thing I can do is go to heaven!"

"No!" Susan shrieked. "Buy me some jewelry!"

Applause erupted from all the women in the audience.

Dr. Mordechai Omer, director and chief curator of the museum, reported that he will open a new building in November 2011 that will double the space of the museum. The architect is Preston Scott Cohen, a cousin of two of the dinner guests—artist Donald Sultan and his sister, Terrie Sultan, director of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton.

Omer honored Dominique Levy, co-owner of L&M Art Gallery in Manhattan; Yael Borovich, director and curator of education at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and New York artist Philip Pearlstein.