“The MoMA March Party has become a defining night for New York’s young cultural community.”
The rain pours down as Daniel Goldstein and I roll up to the MoMA March Party. The Young Patrons Council has transformed the stately Agnes Gund Garden Lobby into the city’s most electric salon. DJ Blu DeTiger’s disco‑funk grooves has everyone dancing but I slip up to the second‑floor for the show “Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination.” Seeing contemporary art with pulsing music makes MoMA feel alive in a new way.
In the packed room, I spot Sami Deller, Jordan Dorso and Wes Aderhold and Amitha Raman. “The event creates a space where we can share our love of art and build genuine connections,” Raman, a co-chair, tells me. “MoMA has always been special for me, from my early days in New York. It’s been incredible to watch the Young Patrons Council grow.”
“The outrageous musician Del Water Gap unravels a glorious emotional mess of a set, intimate one moment, anthemic the next.”
The outrageous Brooklyn musician Samuel Holden Jaffe, known as Del Water Gap, unravels a glorious emotional mess of a set, intimate one moment, anthemic the next. Then Zuri Marley (the daughter of the late Reggae legend Bob Marley) closes out with a soulful, sun‑soaked energy that feels like family and discovery at once. “The MoMA March Party has become a defining night for New York’s young cultural community,” Cameron Carani declares. “It’s exciting to see the next generation of collectors celebrating an iconic New York institution.”
I leave with sore dancing feet, and the kind of buzz that lingers after an event where art, music and New York’s young art world collides perfectly.
