This morning, before the press preview of the 26 works expected to bring in some $10 million in the Artists For Haiti charity auction at Christie’s on Thursday, the assembled press waited in the foyer just beyond the entrance to the auction house. Read More
The artist Chuck Close spoke out strongly in favor of a new Il Buco last night at a meeting of Community Board 2, Grub Street reports. In fact, he was so in favor of the new branch that he actually misremembered how bad the neighborhood was before it had restaurants.
“Bars and restaurants saved Read More
Which is greater, the odds of catching the Cash Cab or sharing a taxi with Chuck Close?
For the month of January, certainly the latter. For the second year now, ShowMedia, the company that supplies all the advertising to the cabs is turning 500 taxi toppers into roving canvases. There are two works on the 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
Britney Spears will address the causes of her infamously erratic behavior in an upcoming documentary. Sample quote: "I sit there and I’ll look back and I’m like: ‘I’m a smart person. What the hell was I thinking?’" [People]
The cover photo from the November issue of W, which features Angelina Jolie breast-feeding Read More
Get Whitney! (Photo: Patrick McMullan.)
The other night at the Whitney Museum, they were doing it in pairs, threesomes, and, with some difficulty, all alone.
A couple of new-fangled photo booths, updates on the ones of old, had invitees at the museum’s fall benefit snapping away. Especially since right after they’d posed for Read More
Rendering of 363-371 Lafayette.
Community Board 2 tentatively approved a plan for the development of 363-371 Layfayette Street last night, with several stipulations that the board hopes will preserve light and space for the adjoining building at 20 Bond Street, where legendary artist Chuck Close has a studio.
Tenants at 20 Bond Street and Read More
Michael Graves.
Tomorrow night, architect Michael Graves will be speaking at the New School with Dean Paul Goldberger. It’s the third in a series of talks that has already included artist Chuck Close and designer Bruce Mau.
For anyone looking for a bit more on Mr. Graves besides the famous Read More
It was the evening before the first round of Phillips Auctioneers’ Impressionist and Modern Art Sale, and the formerly crusty English house was doing some major repositioning, aggressively flexing the chic social and financial muscle it’s been given by its new owner, French luxury conglomerate LVMH. It was only last May that the freshly pumped-up Read More
I see that in the bibliography of the catalogue accompanying the Chuck Close exhibition, which Robert Storr has now organized at the Museum of Modern Art, I am on record as having written at least seven reviews of the artist’s work in the decade between December 1971 and April 1981. Most of these pieces were Read More
