The Eight-Day Week

Catherine Malandrino.

To Do Wednesday: Make a Scene

SCENE magazine, a member of the Observer Media Group family, turns a year old today, and this chic little baby is ready to party way past bedtime. To toast the occasion, the SCENEsters are all hitting The Wooly in the historic Woolworth Building, Eric Adolfsen and David Tobias’s hot spot (Lana Del Rey once crooned Read More

The Wee Hours

Art at the Bar of Mechanical Reproduction

The blond painter was wearing a tan jacket. “Honestly,” he said, “everyone making art right now is fucking derivative.”

A man standing at the bar started yelling at the painter. “What happened to realism? What happened to figurative painting?”

“Fuck figurative painting! Fuck realism!” the painter shouted back. “I’m talking about Abstract Expressionism, Read More