On April 24th, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted its grand opening night party, sponsored by Max Mara, to celebrate the Museum’s downtown move to its new home in the Meatpacking District. The event also acted as a preview for the current exhibition, America Is Hard to See. In addition to Adam D. Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown…
Month: April 2015
New Art Dealer's Alliance NADA Art Fair Pier 36 | Basketball City 299 South Street, New York May 14-17 The New Art Dealer's Alliance has announced the upcoming fourth annual NADA art fair, which will be held at Pier 36 on the East River. This is an exhibition of 100 galleries from all around the world, including…
"I take care of my brand! I now have over half a million people following me... What do you come with? A degree?" Biting satire, delivered here by Maisie Williams, sets the tone for a whimsical new web series, Supreme Tweeter. The brain child of Jayne Hong (I Origins, He Has Seen War) and Harry Lloyd (The Theory of Everything, Game of Thrones),…
New York society gathered on Thursday, April 16, 2015 for the 12th Annual New Yorkers for Children Spring Dinner Dance – "New Year’s in April: A Fool’s Fête," presented by Saks Fifth Avenue. This year, NYFC payed tribute to fellow board member Oscar de la Renta, celebrating his impact on NYFC's programs and development. Guests…
PARIS + LA + NY + PARAMOUNT + PHOTOGRAPHY= The Paris Photo LA Fair Paramount Pictures Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038 May 1-3rd, 2015 PARIS PHOTO LA FAIR (Take Four) This May, the Paris Photo Fair moves from the Grand Palais to Paramount Pictures Studios in LA. for the 4th annual Paris Photo Los Angeles…
China: Through the Looking Glass The Metropolitan Museum of Art Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center May 7–August 16, 2015 The Costume Institute’s spring 2015 exhibition, China: Through the Looking Glass, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 7 through August 16, 2015. In this collaboration between The Costume Institute…
The Tribeca Film Festival, taking place in various parts of downtown New York from April 15-26, holds its own as a festival known for its documentaries, its happenings in the surrounding Tribeca area, and its appreciation of women directors with the Nora Ephron Prize. Featuring some 100 feature films, with 67 of them premiers, this…
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From Sidewalk to Catwalk April 1 - August 3 Grand Palais Avenue des Champs Elyses, Paris 75008 The retrospective of fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier is on his 10th stop of his international exhibition tour in Paris. The exhibit was previously shown in Montreal, Dallas, San Francisco, Madrid,…
It's official - Hillary Clinton will run for president for the second time since 2008. In an email from her campaign chairman on Sunday, April 12, Clinton announced that she will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for presidency in 2016. With her announcement, she immediately comes to the top of the contenders…
The New York Academy of Art has announced their annual Tribeca Ball will honor art collector and publishing entrepreneur Peter M. Brant this year on Monday, April 13th. Presented by Van Cleef & Arpels, the evening shines a light on the emerging artists of the Academy with proceeds supporting scholarships and public programing. Inspired by…
Marcin Maciejowski: "Unsettled Matters" Wilkinson, 50-58 Vyner Street, London, Lower Gallery April 17 - May 17, 2015 Opening: Thursday 16 April, 6 - 8pm About the artist: "For Maciejowski, the act of painting is a way to think about the world: to notice people and moments, from his life, from the media, and from history,…
Gordon Parks Segregation Story Adamson Gallery 1515 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20005 April 11 - June 27 Adamson Gallery presents Segregation Story, an exhibit of photography by Gordon Parks. Parks is known as one of the twentieth century's foremost documentarians of American life. Segregation Story features a selection of images from Parks's powerful 1956 photographic series, which documented an extended African…
"Sugar and spice, and everything nice -" isn't that what little girls are made of? That's what we're told, at least. To be a girl, we must be nice, sweet, and inoffensive. This has had the effect of making women more aware of potentially offensive actions, and when that happens, we immediately blurt out an…
The Algonquin Kid by Michael Colby: The Real Life Eloise Story. April 2nd was a Broadway star-studded book signing for a brand new book for the Algonquin Kid at The Drama Book Shop in NYC. This was an event with performances from old and new Broadway celebrities, which included Steve Ross, Tovah Feldshuh, Tony Sheldon, KT Sullivan,…
After the enormous success of the AMC series, developed for television by Frank Darabont and based on the comic book series created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, The Walking Dead is getting a spin-off series. Fear the Walking Dead, which stars Cliff Curtis (Missing), Kim Dickens (Deadwood, Treme), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter…
An exquisite home in the downtown heart of Manhattan, otherwise known as the Meatpacking District, the Elyx House NYC was created with Absolut Elyx, a high-end vodka from Absolut to "provide a true home for the brand on the East Coast of the United States." Wednesday night, an elite group of guests were invited to…
In a world where one misstep can ruin a career, the rise to power in the fashion world isn’t an easy one. That’s why it’s always a hold-your-breath-moment when a fashion house gets a new creative director. In the case of Dior, whose founder, Christian Dior, made an everlasting impact on his 10 years as…
America Is Hard to See The Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street New York NY 10014 May 1 2015 - September 27 2015 The Whitney Museum of American Art will open its new Renzo Piano–designed home at 99 Gansevoort Street on May 1, 2015, with an exhibition America Is Hard to See that reexamines…