First Daughter of Mustique Elizabeth Hilfiger shouted "Is BryanBoy here?" The elusive Philippine blogger may not be, a P.R. type informed her. "BRYANBOY," she groaned, exhibiting a classic vocal fry. Nearby, Bradley Cooper discussed football with New York Giant Victor Cruz--"I'm an Eagles man myself," said the Limitless star--between posing for snaps with Read More
In “Applied Flesh,” his first New York solo show, Nicholas Buffon uses five paintings and two incredible drawings to get a view of what it means to live in time—in the paintings, by recording the full weight of the momentary action of making a mark; and in the drawings, by diagramming the full scope of the patterns created by singular actions when they’re repeated. Read More
No secret that we're Jeopardy! partisans, and no secret, too, that tonight's continuation of the annual college tournament is the last, best chance to form your prejudices about the contestants before the finals next week. Take a drink every time Alex gets overruled by the judges! (It's happening more and more! What's going on, A.T.?) Read More
When earlier this week, the New York Daily News reported that Park Slope resident and mother Susan Fox was looking to the listserv ParkSlopeParents.com for material on her own "Shit ___ Say" spinoff, the subsection of the Internet devoted to hipsters living off the F-line of the borough collectively rolled its eyes.
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We've already noted the infinite sadness of Rooney Mara as depicted in her "official" portrait snapped at the Oscar nominees' luncheon. But there's so much more going on with the twenty acting nominees this year, as each one has a customized framing to suit his or her respective persona. What else is worth noting in the nominee portraits?
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On the occasion of a typically grim portrait snapped at the Oscar nominees' luncheon, we decided to look into Ms. Mara's pre-cyberpunk period--turns out she does know how to smile. Read More
Marc Jancou, of the gallery by that name on West 24th Street, has sued both Sotheby's and Cady Noland after the auction house withdrew a work that he had consigned by the artist, Cowboys Milking (1990), from its contemporary day sale this past fall. Another work by the artist, Oozewald (1989), sold for $6.6 million with premium, a new artist's record and over a high estimate at $3 million at the Sotheby's fall evening sale, just one day before Mr. Jancou's Noland was to have been sold. Mr. Jancou now claims that auction house owes him $6 million in damages and that Ms. Noland owes him $20 million. Read More
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
Apparently, there's this thing called "Valentine's Day" happening next week. Presumably, it happens every year and involves things like flowers and chocolate and expensive dinner and has an overall subtext of possible "romantic sex."
Ostensibly, if one was "single" and "alone," this day serves as nothing but a reminder of those very traits. If one happened to be in a "relationship," it's usually a day when you try to spend money in order to cover up the fact that you are in an insufferable "partnership" that is going to end in one or the other person leaving, subsequently ruining the month (or year) of both "partners." So: what better way to celebrate the prospect of a long life spent living with more than two cats that leads to nothing more than a solitary and pointless death than with a tour of contemporary art in Chelsea!
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January's over now--meaning that the movies will slowly get a little better until summer. (April's a really underrated moviegoing month.) But the quintessential January movies--schlocky, cheap in every sense, poorly acted by stars either slowly rising or rapidly falling--live on year-round on premium cable. Tonight, enjoy watching two television actresses torment one another in The Read More
Today, Gerhard Richter turns 80.
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The American dealer Robert E. Hecht Jr. has died at 92. He had been the subject of a criminal trial in Rome for his alleged involvement in trafficking looted antiquities. Hecht was accused along with his supposed co-conspirators Marion True (formerly the chief curator of antiquities at The Getty) and the dealer Giacomo Medici of helping in the illicit trade of objects from tombs in Italy into the hands of private collectors and, eventually, museums.
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1. Jeopardy! 2-5. The NBC Thursday night comedy block. This has been Programs Whose Excessive, Multiple-Times-A-Break Ads for The Descendants Will Make Viewers Wonder If They Became Oscar Voters and Didn't Know It.
Dear David Hockney,
Your two letters to The Guardian, "The trouble with tobacco haters" and "The pleasures of tobacco," and pretty much everything you say therein, has me convinced that you are kind of the coolest. You are, indeed, someone who is immune to the manipulations of advertising. You are looking out for number one, and you don't care who knows it. Your acute awareness that "we have to die" someday makes me want to live for today, to hell with caution! (Ah, if only cigarettes didn't cost $14 in Manhattan!)
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Barack Obama's campaign, not content with a Google+ chat, jumped onboard a new tech craze by uploading a Spotify playlist for the 2012 race. (Spotify is the music network that publicizes the songs to which one listens and allows the creation of epic playlists.) It's pretty easy to cherrypick out the songs of which Read More
Fresh off the runways in Milan and Paris, model-newcomer Miles McMillan (who walked in Dior, Etro, John Varvatos, Costume National and Damir Doma—to name a few) is gearing up for another strong season of shows and parties in New York. The Observer hunted him down to find out what life is like when you’re so in-demand. Read More
