ART Parties/Scene
BASEL, Switzerland — Last night, the stars aligned in Basel as a host of the art world’s elite congregated at the annual dinner presented by Credit Suisse and Newsweek/Daily Beast at Fondation Beyeler. Garage Center...
NEW YORK — Rain clouds may have loomed over Soho last night, but that didn’t stop an incredibly chic crowd from heading to the Swiss Institute, located at the former Deitch Projects space. Of course, having the name Chanel on the invitation probably didn’t...
It was midnight in the concrete lot behind Skylight Studios, in Soho, and the two dancers wrapped in white cloth were writhing and voguing beside a leafless tree trunk. Their tunics scrunched up below their waists like deconstructed tutus, and the tree...
NEW YORK — Claes Oldenburg, Frank Stella, Christo, Cindy Sherman, Martin Puryear, David Hockney, Lynda Benglis, John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner. The list may sound like a postwar art history curriculum, but in...
ISTANBUL — The lovably goofy Istancool is no more. In its third year, the swanky Turkish arts-and-culture get-together returned last weekend with the more neutered name Istanbul International Arts & Culture Festival (“IST. Fest” seems to be the prefered...
NEW YORK — The Museum of Modern Art rolled out the red carpet along 54th Street last night to welcome the generous patrons who showed up for its annual Party in the Garden.Guests gathered under giant suspended spherical ornaments in the dressed-up Abby...
NEW YORK — The Whitney Museum may have been the venue, and artist Jeff Koons the host, but the focus of last night’s black-tie affair wasn’t his upcoming 2014 retrospective there, but rather philanthropy. The intimate dinner honored the patrons who have been...
NEW YORK — During the ’90s, the space at 222 12th Avenue was once the location of the bass-pounding, drug-fueled nightclub Tunnel, which was immortalized in “Sex and the City” and Bret Easton Ellis’s “American Psycho.” But last night it held a more subdued...
The most striking thing about the opening reception for Tom Sachs’s “Space Program: Mars” – apart from the fact that he filled the gigantic Park Avenue Armory with faithful recreations of NASA interstellar travel machines – was the presence of so many little...
For its first annual Decades Ball, Lapham’s Quarterly decided to throw a 1920s-themed bash. And everything at the ballroom at 538 Park Avenue was of that time — the lush décor, the costumes, the flappers in bob haircuts — apart from one sharp digression...
