Partygoers included
everyday art lovers, deep -
pocket patrons and VIPs, including photorealist Chuck Close, who called the 460,000 -
square - foot space, now America's largest contemporary art museum, wonderful; Peter Boris, executive vice president of Pace Gallery in New York, who deemed it not only staggering but also a treasure that «elevates the museum to an entirely new level of importance»; and financial mogul Charles Schwab, chairman of the museum's board of trustees, who said simply, «It's a wow — a major wow.»