By Jonah Wolf 9/04/12 7:21pm

Shindigger

Cindy Sherman. (Adriel Reboh/Patrick McMullan)

Guests of Cindy Sherman: The Azuero Earth Project Benefit at the Artist’s East Hampton Spread

“Look who it is: it’s Edwina, the Edwina,” Isaac Mizrahi exclaimed to The Observer this past Saturday, as he approached Edwina von Gal, the designer who, Ross Bleckner told us, “did the landscaping at my house in Sagaponack.”

We were at Cindy Sherman’s new East Hampton home at a benefit for the Azuero Earth Project, the Panama-based ecological nonprofit of which Ms. von Gal is president. It was a cozy beginning-of-the-end to the Hamptons summer season. Guests sat on benches under a white tent to eat empanadas and watch performances by Suzanne Vega, Rufus Wainwright, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed. Children climbed into pendulous bamboo cocoons, stuffed with pillows, that swayed from the trees. Read More

By Dan Duray 12/06/11 6:00pm

The Transom

Kurt Andersen and Anne Kreamer, as the Lunts of the lit set. (Photo courtesy of Mark Iantosca, courtesy of The New Inquiry)

Cub Kids Flock to the Jane

The main lounge of the Jane Hotel was probably the brightest most people had ever seen it on Sunday afternoon, as literati packed the room for a marathon reading of Frederic Tuten’s The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, a scrappy postmodern novel that details those dubious adventures —Greta Garbo, in a tank, visits him at one point—and lifts around a quarter of its pages from other sources like Friedrich Engels and Washington Irving. Around 63 readers, identified by number in a program and on a giant screen to the right of the room, read portions of the text over a five-hour period, with memorable turns in the role of Mao from Kurt Andersen and a puppet. Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 2/24/10 1:42pm

New Blood for P.S.1′s Board of Directors

Five months into Klaus Biesenbach’s directorship of the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the board of directors that will take the Museum of Modern Art’s kunsthalle in Queens into the post–Alanna Heiss era is taking shape. P.S.1 board chair and former MoMA president Agnes Gund told The Observer that newly appointed members of the board include Read More

By Molly Fischer 6/05/09 2:30pm

Youssou Crazy! Documentarians Rally Around Senegalese Singer at Paris Theater

“I feel like the Benetton ads,” said filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, posing for photos with Senegalese singer Youssou NDour and fellow director Mike Nichols at a screening of her new documentary, Youssou NDour: I Bring What I Love, at the Paris Theater on Thursday night, June 4.

The film follows the recording and reception of Mr. Read More

By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt 3/23/98 12:00am

Altar Angst? Cyber-Rabbi to the Rescue!

A few weeks ago, my good friend Sarah and I were sitting in her Perry Street apartment, watching rady Bunch reruns on cable. At the commercial breaks, we chatted about her upcoming wedding, everything from the politics of choosing bridesmaids to the minutiae of color schemes to the all-important question that torments so many prospective Read More