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ICE CUBE: Comcast out and about
If I had known, I would have brought my bill.
ICE CUBE: Comcast out and about
This weekend, Philadelphia’s most prominent media-centric dynasty (as if we had a bunch) the Robertses of Comcast/Universal/Xfinity fame made their presence known at several top notch events. If I had known, I would have brought my bill.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art opened its “Great and Mighty Things: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection” last week with an intimate dinner amongst donors, friends of the Bonovitz family and admirers in Philly’s social and political sphere.
The exhibition itself was quietly dazzling, a fine opportunity to see over 190 American works from the 1930s to the 1980s and outsider art’s most prominent names like William Edmondson, Bill Traylor, William Hawkins, Elijah Pierce and Howard Finster. You got the feeling that not every viewer warmed to primitive wooden sculptures and art works painted onto wood scraps, roofing tin, and shirt cardboard. That’s what makes “Great and Mighty Things” so outsider — it’s not for everybody.
The PMA event was for Gerry and wife Marguerite Lenfest, John Wind, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz and State Rep. Dwight Evans. The Outsider Art party was also for Brian L. Roberts, the chairman and CEO of Comcast and the big boss at Universal/NBC as well as his mom, actress/philanthropist Suzanne Roberts whose family was one of those who aided in the funding of “Great and Mighty Things.” Good on them.
The next night, the Robertses were part of the Philadelphia Theatre Company’s annual gala at the Loews Hotel in name only as it is the namesake Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Broad Street that houses the PTC’s comings-and-goings. (Mrs. Roberts was scheduled to attend but fell ill according to PTC PR.) At the Loews, PTC’s artistic director Sara Garoznik played host to the toast (and toasted, I had a few drinks) of Philly’s social strata including Cookie and Jerry Reisenbach, Kim Balaschak and author Carol Saline. The evening was also in dedication to the good works of PNC Arts Alive’s first family Julia and Gene Ericksen for their years of supporting Philadelphia Theatre Company.
TONY Award-winning Patina Miller, who was part of PTC’s inaugural season at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, performed for the sold out gala’s crowd.
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