Dinner with Patti Smith

Dinner with Patti Smith hosted by Washington Life. Sooooo cool.

DINNER WITH PATTI SMITH

Teatro Goldoni

PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL

THE EVENT: This intimate dinner brought some of the city’s top art collectors, patrons and professionals together with the iconic musician and artist, Patti Smith. The four-course gourmet aff air followed Smith’s one-woman performance “An Evening of Spoken Word and Song with Patti Smith” at the Archives of American Art. THE SCENE:Forty lucky guests spent the evening chatting about art and the letters Patti Smith read from the book With Love: Artists’ Letters and Illustrated Notes. THE GUESTS: Archives of American Art director John W. Smith, the Hirshhorn’s Kerry Brougher, Tim and Shigeko Bork, artist Mark Smith, Susan Eisenhower and collectors Cindy and Evan Jones.

Brian looks exasperated but in fact, this is his usual demeanor.


Why am I dressed like this? Because I had been channeling Audrey Hepburn at Wreckfest @ Tiffany's earlier in the evening.