NEW YORK — A select group of people visited MoMA yesterday evening to see the many faces of Cindy Sherman at the party for her self-titled retrospective, which opens to the public on February 26. Luminaries like Wendi Murdoch, Michael Stipe, David Rockefeller, Chuck Close, and John Waters wandered through the Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery on the museum’s sixth floor to view Sherman’s identity-questioning tableaux, as other guests enjoyed drinks on the first two levels.

“I do own some modest prints that I bought from art fairs and stuff, and I have a few little things she’s given me,” Waters told ARTINFO. “I wish I could afford some — her last show was my favorite ever.”

Painter Henry Taylor, who currently has a show at MoMA PS1, said that Sherman was the first artist he told his daughter to look at. “I’ve never seen so much of it at one time, it’s kind of overwhelming, but it’s great,” said Taylor. “It’s playful, it’s serious, it’s thought-provoking, humorous.”

Stipe told ARTINFO he first met Sherman in the ’80s through artist Robert Longo. “I was a huge admirer of her when I first met her and I continue to be,” said Stipe. “She’s amazing.”

Click on the photo gallery to see guests at MoMA’s opening party for “Cindy Sherman.”

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