At the New York Academy of Art's Tribeca Ball, the city gathered to honor--and possibly buy!--the work of academy students, displayed over the academy's five floors. This wasn't idle gazing: Naomi Watts was spotted deep in conversation with several young artists. "I bought something downstairs! It will make a lot of sense to my children," Read More
“I don’t talk to the fuckin’ press!” Kanye West told The Observer.
We were standing in front of the titan of pop music at a party to celebrate artist George Condo’s first retrospective, “Mental States,” which opened last Wednesday at the New Museum. This is no small show. In fact, it’s a tour de Read More
"I don't talk to the fuckin' press!" Kanye West told The Observer.
We were standing in front of the titan of pop music at a party last night to celebrate artist George Condo's first retrospective, Mental States, which opens today at The New Museum. Condo is known for painting his subjects as wild-eyed gaping clown faces, Read More
“We lost Meryl Streep,” a PR girl told The Observer when we arrived to the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera on Monday, Sept. 21, for a staging of Tosca, which Ms. Streep was expected to attend, but, alas, did not.
Perhaps it had something to do with how the opera has evolved Read More
On a screen, the actresses Azura Skye Read More
Socialite Arden Wohl, who is often described as a "filmmaker" in the press, has written and directed a new short film, Two Other Dreams, which will debut at Art Production Fund's Lab 15 space on Wooster Street this weekend.
In 2006, Ms. Wohl released a debut film called Coven, which was a Read More
As reported by the Ivy League gossip source Ivygateblog.com, an administrator at the university’s Berlind Theater recently sent out a mass e-mail to dramatically inclined undergraduates seeking a prompter for the upcoming opening of Read More
Clicking through New York actress and socialite Serena Merriman’s Facebook album, called “Friends,” we found the above shot of Ms. Merriman, pal Sturgis Adams and, um, Leelee Poohead? That sure looks a lot like 24-year-old actress Leelee Sobieski. Call it the new twist on the common socialite practice of switching the placement of first and Read More
Is Leelee Sobieski Hollywood’s latest contribution to New York’s late-night party scene? (After all, it’s been little over a week since the Daily Transom last ran into the 24-year-old actress at Simon Hammerstein’s cabaret, The Box.) A little after 10 p.m. last night, we found the Walk All Over Me star at Bella’s Read More
At the after party following last night’s New York Public Library Lions Benefit, David Lauren and his girlfriend Lauren Bush, one of the evening’s co-chairs, were inseparable, an eyewitness told the Daily Transom. “He was leading her around all night,” the source said of the handsome clothing scion’s modus operandi at the post-dinner dance Read More
Late last night at Simon Hammerstein and Richard Kimmel’s celeb-infested, serially newsworthy Lower East Side cabaret, The Box, the actress Leelee Sobieski wore a top-hat and slinky tank top and carried a mold of her own skull (it had been commissioned for an upcoming film, Night Train, she explained, in which she stars with Danny Read More
At the New York Film Festival’s opening night party, which was held on Friday, Sept. 28, at the elegantly faded, labyrinthine Central Park restaurant Tavern on the Green, the actress LeeLee Sobieski approached an outdoor table and asked if she and her friends, the pleasantly rumpled musician Adam Green (famous for being in the indie Read More
