ART Parties/Scene
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 Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, which was decorated with glittery white...
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 profiled in the Wall Street Journal’s Donor of the Day column.A warm, mild...
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 gathering as the venue for the Whitney Museum’s 21st Annual American Art Award...
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 kids. Tykes bounced around at every glance, some wearing plastic space helmets,...
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. For a party honoring the age of prohibition, the alcohol was quite readily...
“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 good-looking creative types sitting at café tables and sipping champagne, all a...
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 meatpacking district’s reigning late-night party locale in daylight, and the...
NEW YORK — The grand stairway leading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala is heralded as the most fashionable red carpet of all, and last night an A-list set of dressed-up designers, dapper actors, models, leading ladies, well-heeled socialites, and sultry songstresses made their way up the steps to show off their...
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 Roseland Ballroom.Fifties-style cigarette girls donning slinky bathing suits...
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 natural that her artwork, which she displayed for the first time last night at...
