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Art Battles
01/26/2010 - By New York, NY

Art Battles

On Tuesday evening, January 26, more than 250 Young Patrons of the American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (AFTAM) gathered at the Tribeca Y for Art Battles, a live painting competition and auction.

The crowd of young professionals watched as local artists completed paintings in just one hour. The winning artist at battle was determined by the highest price bid in the live auction that followed.


Organized by Event Co-Chairs Rebecca Alvandi and David Yadegar, the event and auction raised funds for the circulating exhibitions program at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel's leading museum of modern art and home to the largest collection of Israeli art in the world. The museum sends high-quality reproductions of works of art to the citizens in remote areas of Israel who are unable to visit the Museum. Donations to the event included wine from Royal Wines, cupcakes from Baked by Melissa, and gift bags from Clarins.

AFTAM was founded in 1974 to raise funds for the museum and to seek gifts of notable works of art. The Young Patrons group was established three years ago. Its executive board members are chairperson Stacy Rotner, Rebecca Alvandi, Julie Brener and Valerie Fields. Board members are Mimi Banks, Matan Ben-Aviv, Nadav Besner, Marc Chodock, Adrienne Fields, Sarah Gleit, Ilya Katsman, Marlin Nowbakht, Emeline Salama-Caro, Jonathan Schmerin, Maytal Sharifi, Jeremy Shure, Jessica Steinhagen, Andrew Waranch, and David Yadegar.

The Host Committee for Art Battles were Jessica Abo, Alex Berger, Eric Brody, Inga Burekhovich, Matt Cohen, Rachel Cohn, Micaela Ezra, Leeor Farhadian, Elizabeth Frumin, Sylvan Garfunkel, Ben Haghani, Maayan Keshet, Alexis Klein, Jordan Lippner, Steven Ludmer, Josh Mandel, Jessica Morgan, Andre Ohnona, Keith M. Rosenbloom, Meri Salimi, Maggie Sequeira, Zion Shohet, Dustin Adam Stein, Victoria Stein, Gloria Velandia, and Debbie Zelouf.

Photos by Jason Groob


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