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James Blake is playing MoMA's 2017 Party in the Garden

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The Museum of Modern Art’s Party in the Garden, a benefit event to be held on June 5, will honor Eva and Glenn Dubin and Susan and David Rockefeller, along with collection artists Vija Celmins and Carrie Mae Weems. In recognition of their prolonged commitment to culture, the arts, and MoMA, this year’s honorees are being celebrated for their artistry and philanthropy. Co-chairs of the event are Agnes Gund, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Mimi Haas, and Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin. Honorary co-chairs are Leon D. Black, Marie-Josée Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyer. In addition, this year’s after-party will feature a special host committee of emerging female artists affiliated with the Museum.

MoMA’s annual ‘Party in the Garden’ fundraiser returns on June 5, and this year the performer for the gala afterparty is James Blake. Tickets for the afterparty, which takes place in the The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, start at $250 and go up for VIP options, or if you want to attend the preceding dinner. It is tax deductible, though.

James Blake worked on Kendrick Lamar’s new album, appears on a new Mount Kimbie track, and will also play FORM Arcosanti in May. All tour dates are listed below.

James Blake – 2017 Tour Dates
Sun 14 May 17 US Arizona Form Arcosanti
Thu 05 Jun 17 NYC MOMA Party in the Garden
Sun 11 Jun 17 DK Aarhus Northside Festival
Wed 14 Jun 17 IT Florence Visarno Arena*
Fri 16 Jun 17 IT Milan I-Days Festival
Sun 18 Jun 17 NL Hilvarenbeek Best Kept Secret Festival
Wed 28 Jun 17 PL Gdynia Open’er Festival
Fri 30 Jun 17 BE Werchter Rock Werchter Festival