Frank Gehry, one of the honorees at this year’s Dior Guggenheim International Gala, decided to heed a classic piece of advice: never meet your heroes.
“As a young architect I studied Frank Lloyd Wright. I did everything: I studied every drawing, every piece of work, every building, all the houses, I visited everything,” said the architect, addressing the crowd seated inside the museum’s rotunda — designed by Frank Lloyd Wright — on Thursday night. “And then I got a chance to meet him, and I turned it down. I just didn’t want to meet him.”
Gehry was being honored as one of the museum’s great “Franks”; he designed the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, as well as the planned Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Also honored during the museum’s annual fundraising event were Peter Lawson-Johnston and “Works and Process” curators Mary Sharp Cronson and Caroline Cronson.
“It’s a great honor to be in this space, I’ve been here many times. The Guggenheim has been a big part of my life,” Gehry added.
During cocktail hour, guests including Karlie Kloss; Uma Thurman and daughter Maya Hawke; Charlize Theron; Zoey Deutch; Nina Dobrev; Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff, and Mickalene Thomas (who Dior is hosting a dinner for during Art Basel Miami Beach)
“As a young architect I studied Frank Lloyd Wright. I did everything: I studied every drawing, every piece of work, every building, all the houses, I visited everything,” said the architect, addressing the crowd seated inside the museum’s rotunda — designed by Frank Lloyd Wright — on Thursday night. “And then I got a chance to meet him, and I turned it down. I just didn’t want to meet him.”
Gehry was being honored as one of the museum’s great “Franks”; he designed the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, as well as the planned Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. Also honored during the museum’s annual fundraising event were Peter Lawson-Johnston and “Works and Process” curators Mary Sharp Cronson and Caroline Cronson.
“It’s a great honor to be in this space, I’ve been here many times. The Guggenheim has been a big part of my life,” Gehry added.
During cocktail hour, guests including Karlie Kloss; Uma Thurman and daughter Maya Hawke; Charlize Theron; Zoey Deutch; Nina Dobrev; Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff, and Mickalene Thomas (who Dior is hosting a dinner for during Art Basel Miami Beach)