A hipper-than-thou crowd assembled for the opening of the artist Terence Koh’s first painting show, hosted by Julian Schnabel’s son Vito, the wunderkind art dealer and rumored Elle MacPherson dater, below with Koh. The soirée took place in the vast former New York studio of the late photographer Richard Avedon, now home to the French president’s half brother, Olivier Sarkozy, and Olivier’s wife, Charlotte, not to mention their art, including works by Haring, Basquiat and Banksy. Present were not only Koh’s fans, like hipster artist Dash Snow and collectors Phil and Shelley Aarons, but also the designer Zac Posen and the novelist Salman Rushdie. Koh remained blasé: "Oh, these are just fun, easy paintings," he said with Warholian nonchalance. "Anything would look beautiful in here."

"Andy Lives" originally appeared in the January 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's January 2009 Table of Contents.