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By Drew Grant 9/13/12 3:16pm

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Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper at 1stDibs gallery (Patrick McMullan)

Gloria Vanderbilt Paints the Town, Exhibits 60 Years of Artworks at 1stDibs

While Fashion Week was winding down at Lincoln Center Wednesday night, Diane von Furstenberg was sequestered on the 10th floor of a nondescript Lexington Avenue building. Across the giant storeroom of the mostly digital antique dealer 1stDibs, Patrick McMullan was snapping Bill Cunningham as he took a picture of a small watercolor on the wall. Nearby, Anderson Cooper hovered around his mother, who, in a stunning red kimono, greeted guests to her first solo art show since 2001. Read More

By Rebecca Panovka and Ruirui Kuang 6/30/11 2:05pm

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Ai's self-portrait outside Tomkins Square Park, 1986. c/o Asia Society Museum.

Ai Weiwei Captures a Bygone New York

Three decades before his arrest and subsequent release last week by the Chinese government incited a media firestorm, Ai Weiwei worked as a Times Square street portraitist.

Enrolled at Parsons and living on the Lower East Side, he encountered drug dealers in abandoned buildings, a gritty underground arts scene, and police brutality at Tomkins Square Read More

By Nate Freeman 3/29/11 11:27pm

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Those Were The Days! Damon Johnson's Homecoming

Last week, a gallery and bar on the Lower East Side—called, appropriately enough, Gallery Bar—played host to a style installation by the 33-year-old artist Damon Johnson. The choice of neighborhood was key. “The Beautiful Chaos: A Style Installation,” which attracted a scarf-heavy crowd who guzzled red and white wine while dodging multiple photographers, was an Read More