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19 ILLUMINATED M embers of the Menil family included Lois and George de Menil, Andee and Aziz Friedrich, Anne Schlumberger, Susan and Menil Foundation Trustee Francois de Menil and their children Sophie, Conrad, and John. As is tradition with Menil galas, a number of artist headliners were in attendance: Korean-born JooYoung Choi and her husband, Texas Artist of the Year Trenton Doyle Hancock; sculptor Michael Heizer; New York-based Roni Horn, who will show at the Menil Drawing Institute when it opens; New York painter Matt Kleberg of the King Ranch family, here for his show at Hiram Butler with wife/artist Elizabeth Stehl Kleberg; and from the fashion side, Vogue's Hamish Bowles, Carlos Mota, and Adam Lippes; L.A. architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee (The Menil Drawing Institute); Picasso's grandson Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and wife gallerist Almine Rech; and Caroline Huber. Representing the night's jewelry sponsor were Tenenbaum Jewelers' Tony Bradfi eld and Kevin Black, who provided party favors: a leather wrap bracelet with a shimmering 12mm freshwater pearl, a nod to the pearl's oft-quoted relationship to the moon and as the appropriate gift for a 30th anniversary. Houston supporters: Menil board VP Doug Lawing and his partner Guy Hagstette, Sara and Bill Morgan, Chinhui and Eddie Allen, Kathryn and Richard Rabinow, Nancy Allen, Marcy and Tom Wessel, HGO artistic/musical di- rector Patrick Summers and Beau Miller, MFAH director Gary Tinterow and Christopher Gardner, Andrea and Bill White, Jackson Hicks, Diane Lokey Farb, Kate and Steve Gibson, Penelope and Lester Marks, Martha and Richard Finger, Nancy and Erik Littlejohn, Dorene and Frank Herzog, Jereann Chaney with daughter Holland, and Christie's Jessica Phifer. Rounding out the art royals: Texas artists McKay Otto, Salle Werner-Vaughn, and Keith Carter; gallerists Betty Moody, Hiram Butler and husband Andrew Spindler-Roesle, and Kerry Inman and husband Denby Auble; curators Michelle White of the Menil, Clint Willour, and the MFAH's Alison Greene; the Glassell's Joe Havel; Pulitzer Arts Foundation's Kristina Van Dyke with Jeff Fort; the Kimbell's George Shackelford; Suzanne Deal Booth (who endowed the Turrell Skyspace at Rice); dealer Britt Sager in from London; Ballroom Marfa founder Fairfax Dorn with husband Pace Gallery's Marc Glimcher. John & Becca Cason Thrash Aliyya Stude, Adam Lippes Kevin Black, Tony Bradfi eld, Marguerite Schwartz Christina Stith Lynn Wyatt, Sanford Criner Hamish Bowles Carlos Mota Honoree Louisa Stude Sarofi m Scott & Judy Nyquist Susan & Francois de Menil Kelly & Nicholas Silvers Ron Franklin Janet Gurwitch Janie C. Lee David Warren Rich & Nancy Kinder Barbara Gamson Greg Fourticq