Despite the rainy weather, a crowd including Charlotte Ronson, Fabiola Beracasa, Jenne Lombardo, and Maggie Betts turned out last night at The Hole gallery downtown for Evan Gruzis’ True Religion-presented solo show, Exotic Beta. The show is the second exhibition for the year-old venue founded by Kathy Grayson, former director of the now-shuttered Deitch Projects.“Evan [...]

After his Friday night presentation, Bland designer Teddy Willoughby extended his fashion week reach with a pop-up shop in Asia Song Society, Terence Koh’s Canal Street gallery. Willoughby, along with Deitch’s Meghan Coleman, curated the contents of the space, which opened this weekend. “It’s like what you’d find on a table from our house,” Willoughby [...]

Last night, I had a revelation. I realized how appropriate it was that Madonna was the face of Louis Vuitton this season. In the fashion world, Jacobs is the king (queen?) of reinvention—of course, a finely honed Madge skill. It was only a handful of seasons ago that he was slightly pudgy and pale with [...]

You may not know the name Rafael de Cárdenas, but if you’ve visited Miami lately, chances are you’ve seen his handiwork. (Or if you’re model-obsessed and pored over the gorgeous spreads of Jessica Stam’s apartment in the October issue of Elle Decor.) De Cárdenas is the architect behind new exhibition space O.H.W.O.W. (short for Our [...]

The figures in Down, Kehinde Wiley’s new series of paintings at Deitch Projects, may all lie flat, but the California-born artist’s star is on the rise. Wiley has earned international accolades for his genre-subverting re-creations of traditional portraiture—previously the sole dominion of the wealthy and powerful—that feature young, unknown, and casually attired blackmen from Harlem, [...]