Guests attended the dinner to celebrate the launch of the first ever TIME100 Art list.
Here’s what each of them toasted to.
“On one of my trips, I encountered Picasso’s Guernica…although I didn’t understand it at first, I went home and learned about the Spanish Civil War,” Lauder said. “I began to understand that art could do more than inspire—it could preserve history and expand the way we see the world.”
Years later, he explained in the toast, MOMA is still an inspiration to him as an art collector, after he spent 10 years as chairman of the museum.
Lauder also discussed the importance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), another iconic New York City museum, to his journey as an art lover. At 14, his parents took him to a dinner there honoring a gift from art collector Florence Gould.
The final museum he toasted was the one he owns, the Neue Galerie New York, which showcases early 20th-century German and Austrian art on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
He finished his toast by describing himself and other collectors as “custodians” of the art that they live with.
Matthew Bogdanos
Matthew Bogdanos, a retired Marine and chief of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, has spent more than two decades hunting down lost and stolen art works and repatriating this art to almost 40 other countries.
“You should share the passion and action of his time, Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, ‘at peril of being judged not to have lived.’” I can tell you from having worked with these people for decades now, Justice Holmes would be proud of them, and so am I, and I hope now so are you,” Bogdanos said.
“I have seen them work their cathartic spell across cultures, across ethnicities, across religion,” he said.
“Respecting the cultural heritage from the very dawn of civilization offers perhaps the best hope we have in overcoming the reductive dualism that is tearing apart our world today by reminding us of our common aspirations, of our common humanity, of our common attempts to make sense of the world we inhabit the cosmos surrounding,” he said.
American painter Amy Sherald, perhaps known best for her portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama, is now one of the most influential painters of her generation.
“You can measure sales. You can count exhibitions, books, and audiences. You can count followers. You can count the number of people who walk through the doors of a museum,” she said. “ But I’m not sure any of those things tell us very much about influence, because influence is often much quieter than that.”
In this room alone, Sherald explains, are many people who have built institutions, supported artists, and changed the way the world saw art.
She went on to quote her friend, Elizabeth Alexander, another TIME100 Art Honoree and president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, who says that imagination is a superpower. Imagination and influence are tied together, Sherald explained.
It is that imagination that allows other people to walk through those doors, and that is what influence means to her, Sherald said: leaving something behind for others to use.
Marie Watt
Marie Watt, a sculptor, textile artist, storyteller, and member of Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians, used her toast to explain how Indigenous communities view art.
For everyone in the room who creates art, Watts said, it’s not for “glory,” fun, or money—though those things can be a byproduct of the work—but rather to understand “what connects” humans, animals, the environment, and the planet.
She finished her toast by raising a glass and calling on the larger community of curators, collectors, and art stewards.
Ken Griffin, CEO of the hedge fund Citadel and one of the world’s most deep-pocketed and active art buyers, began his toast by recognizing the varied artists and art-lovers in the room.
He spoke of a recent project his team collaborated with the Pérez Museum Miami on—an exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s greatest paintings. He recently saw a photograph of a child leaving the museum with a book about Basquiat—an example of the kind of influence he hopes his work is able to have on young people.
He went on to say that he is inspired by the museums he works with, especially those that champion initiatives to make art more accessible, including his work in helping the MCA Chicago and the Whitney do everyday admission for children 18 and under.
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz
Grammy-winning music duo and couple Alicia Keys and Kaseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean do not just create award-winning albums, but they also lead The Dean Collection, one of the most significant private collections of contemporary art by Black artists.
Keys spoke first, highlighting the energy and “magic” of a room full of artists.
Keys said she hoped the honorees and guests, when they leave the room, would leave with that core mission in their hearts and with “openness.”
“It’s not a transactional thing for us when artists enter the Dean Collection. It’s a welcome to the family,” he said. “We only can be custodians of the art. We can only put on display the art for you to see, but the Deans can never own any of these great artists’ work.”
“Deans’ Choice is basically making collectors responsible to collect, protect, and respect the artists, because that’s our job,” Dean said.
“Can we raise our glasses to the kindest love and power in our hearts, to the endless possibility that we all have within us, to celebrating that together we’re stronger than any singular component, and to promising that our intention of uplifting each other will never end, never stop, and never be dissipated.”
TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of Art was presented by Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum, established by Qatar Foundation; Bank of America; and UOVO.
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