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At the New York Academy of Art’s Annual Benefit, the Studio Visits Are the Main Event

Will Cotton, Cynthia Rowley, Alan Cumming and a crowd of well-heeled patrons visited with the Academy's artists before raising over $900,000 in support of the institution's mission.

The New York Academy of Art’s annual benefit is the rare gala evening that skips the ballroom formality and puts the art front and center. Last week, guests with cocktails in hand meandered through the Academy’s studios, engaging directly with its latest cohort of talented MFA candidates, who showed off paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints they’ve developed over the course of an intensive year. This is one of the more genuinely moving evenings on New York’s cultural calendar—part party and part preview of the works you’ll be seeing on gallery walls and in auction houses before too long.

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