The good and wise philanthropists listening to Patti Smith Monday
This just in: Tools for Thought’s silent auction at Sotheby’s Monday night, featuring dozens of artists, most of whom were among the more than 600 hundred attendees who enjoyed Patti Smith’s very un-silent performance, raised more than $150,000 to put toward the reconstruction of Haiti. Bravo.
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Tools For Thought: Rebuild Haiti update
March 17, 2010 – 9:44 am
Swatch Colour Code party, Madrid
March 16, 2010 – 10:49 am
Photos by Javier Garceche
Last week in Madrid, Swatch threw one of the most entertaining and original parties we’ve ever been to. By invitation only, guests received a package in the mail containing a white hooded monkey suit, goggles, a face mask, a water gun, a bottle of paint and an invitation reading “You Are Orange,” [...]
Big Eater @ The Kitchen
March 12, 2010 – 8:27 am
Photo by Paula Court
Clearly contemporary art can have anything as its subject matter and can execute it in any form. “Big Eater” does just that, situating a performance piece on David Hasselhoff’s demoralizing video, taped by his young daughter, in which he’s eating a hamburger on the ground completely wasted. Through the device of appropriation [...]
Tokyo Cat Cafes
March 11, 2010 – 5:14 pm
I recently watched a movie about hostboy bars in Tokyo. There was a menu of guys for women to choose from, and the guy they chose would sit with them and party, try to get them to have fun, encourage them to drink a lot. It was sort of sad, sort of boring – about [...]
Nash Ambassador: The Car of the Future
March 7, 2010 – 11:24 pm
There’s an article in the Times today about the 1950 Nash Ambassador owned by radio host Rich Conaty. He says that all the cars in the Superman tv show were Nashes: the police in Gotham drove the car he has, Lois Lane had a Nash Rambler (my mom also had one in the 60’s that [...]
Dossier at Paris Fashion Week F/W10
March 6, 2010 – 9:48 pm
Dossier Creative Director Skye Parrott is currently in Paris for Fashion Week, shooting a photo diary for The New York Times. If, per chance, you’re wishing you were in The City of Light drinking champagne, eating macaroons and basking in the genius of Ghesquière, I’d suggest checking it out—along with our comprehensive coverage on Style.
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Pamela Love for Purple Boutique
March 6, 2010 – 3:24 pm
Pamela Love debuted two exclusive pieces of jewelry for Purple Boutique, the online shop on Purple Diary. One is a classic design of hers, a snake wrapped around a crystal, except in this case the crystal is an amethyst so it’s… purple. The second piece is a ring that looks like it’s out of the [...]
