ART Parties/Scene
“Because you’re here,” said Brooke Geahan, standing in a red-tinted room within the maze of the McKittrick Hotel. “Because you’re here now, you’re part of the special people.”Geahan, doyenne of New York’s swank literary shindigs, was addressing a few dozen...
The sun hadn’t yet set when guests started pouring into the Boom Boom Room for last night’s launch of D’usse, a new cognac that was blended by a cellar master at a 200-year-old French institute, the Chateau de Cognac. There aren’t too many chances to see the...
NEW YORK — Art consultant Anita Contini founded Creative Time in 1973 to bring art out of museums and galleries and into the public eye. On Friday night, it was all about dancing, roses, and stars at the non-profit arts organization’s Annual Spring Gala at...
Courtney Love is rarely at a loss for words. Paragraphs and pages flow out of her, a deluge of wit and warmth. Whether you are a confidant or complete stranger, Love will let you know what she is thinking, and she will let you know for a long time.So it seems...
At the MoMA PS1 opening party for Frieze New York, a European-leaning crowd of hipsters sporting chunky black glasses and light jackets for the warmish weather roosted in the courtyard of the museum for gin and blueberry cocktails and catering courtesy of...
For members of the social set who consider themselves Boom Boom Room regulars, the art of Marco Brambilla will seem eerily familiar. Darting from the Top of the Standard to the streets of the Meatpacking District involves a ride in the hotel’s...
NEW YORK — It’s no secret that the art world is composed of jet setters who flutter around the world from art fairs to biennials to openings. This week, people are landing in New York for Frieze; then it’s off to Cuba (for those who have a special visa or...
The Dior Homme pop-up store opened on Greene Street in SoHo yesterday, and in order for the nattily dressed partygoers to get to the trays of champagne, they had to walk by a text-based sculpture by Robert Montgomery. “Whenever you see the sun reflected in...
All boutique openings have champagne, all boutique openings have canapes, and of course all boutique openings have DJs. So why not switch out the latter with something more intriguing? For the launch of his “shop-in-shop” at Saks Fifth Avenue last night,...
NEW YORK — Indie it-girl Chloe Sevigny and Nate Lowman were just a few of the bold names sitting around an all star table in the cellar of Acme, the new Downtown artist hotspot that recently opened on the corner of Great Jones and Lafayette streets....
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April 08, 2013
