After we overheard Artnet critic Charlie Finch shouting at Salman Rushdie, “Christopher Hitchens is dead! Are you sad?” and watched well-dressed young people sipping mulled wine; after Jonas Mekas videotaped Lola Schnabel, who was wearing some kind of furry animal-print number, talking with her father (in a double-breasted suit jacket and unwashed pajama bottoms) in a cordoned-off room filled with her paintings, which were like her father’s only much worse, Ms. Schnabel finally told Gallerist, with no small amount of venom, “I’m not talking.”