Co-chaired by Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar Tang, it coincides with The Asia Society’s opening of the groundbreaking exhibition “Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia” on view through June 4.
Betsy Z. Cohen and Asia Society VP Tom Nagorski were among the welcoming speakers before guests moved downstairs to dancing with the younger committee and Persian desserts in the Garden Court.
Founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Asia Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational institution headquartered in New York with state-of-the-art cultural centers and gallery spaces in Hong Kong and Houston, and offices in Los Angeles, Manila, Mumbai, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, Washington, D.C., and Zurich.
Betsy and Ed Cohen, Judith-Ann Corrente and Willem Kooyker were the evening’s vice chairs, Carolyn Hsu-Balcer and René Balcer were the evening’s benefactors; friends of the evening included the Arnhold Foundation, J. Frank and Susan Brown, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, Charlotte Feng Ford, Susan E. Lynch, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky, Alexandra Munroe and Robert Rosenkranz, Barbara and Donald Tober, and Lulu and Anthony Wang.
Other guests included Ann Ziff, HRH Princess Jeet Nabha Khemka, Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia, ABT’s Hee Seo, Susan Gutfreund, Timothy Fok, and Nancy Moonves.