Ana Tzarev, a 72-year-old Croatian-born artist and former New Zealand department-store mogul, had never sold a painting or held a public viewing of her work until last Thursday, when she opened a gallery on West 57th Street near Fifth Avenue. The self-funded Ana Tzarev Gallery, featuring only work by Ana Tzarev, is a 14,000-square-feet, two-story Read More
On Monday, Dec. 8, at 5 p.m., a diminutive woman in a tasteful grey suit and a poufy bridal veil tottered around the Church Lounge of the Tribeca Grand Hotel in heels, trying to control her chocolate cocker spaniel. She looked familiar, but perhaps only to the rabid media-watchers who knew her story: It was Read More
At the Shop NYC bazaar Monday evening, sponsored by Gen Art, Heatherette designer Richie Rich was happy to report that he’d just won a court case over the right for him to use his own name as a designer. "How do I compete against myself?" he asked. "I invented Heatherette. A lot of greedy people Read More
A downtown mix of artists and fashion-world people gathered at the Bowery Hotel Thursday night. Their excuse? ART ROCKS, a benefit for the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center. It was said that Rolling Stone Keith Richards would be "toasting" his daughter Alexandra, an artist-model who had a piece in in the silent auction, but he never Read More
The New York Stage and Film Company held their Winter Gala at Capitale on the Bowery on Monday, a day of the week when theaters are traditionally dark. Actors gathered to raise money for its residency program—a "safe space," artistically cozy and warm, where actors and directors could go to develop new plays unmolested by Read More
Last night, on the eve of the election, artists and philanthropists gathered for the 14th Annual Artwalk benefit auction for the Coalition for the Homeless. The event was in honor of the late abstract expressionist artist Robert Rauschenberg, a longtime supporter.
"Bob was of grand generosity, of of the most generous men I ever knew–he Read More
With nearly every headline about the future of print media a grim one, last evening seemed like bad timing for the re-branding of a 150-year-old thought-leader magazine often seen as stodgy and behind the times.
But it was an unseasonably warm autumn night, the moon was full, the Dow had recovered a historic 936 points Read More
