We haven’t even bought our winter coat yet, but celebrities have been racking up Spring dress credits since the shows wrapped last month. See: Gwyneth Paltrow displaying her finely tuned thigh muscles in a one-sleeved Stella McCartney mini not all that unlike the long version that Nicole Kidman wore a week earlier to the Country [...]

“I’m only here for one reason,” said Hugh Jackman. “To get this party started.”Mission accomplished. Jackman was at MoMA to announce Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who gave a raucous performance for a crowd that included Mayor Bloomberg and about as many art-world heavies as are allowed in one room at one time. [...]

The performance artist Marina Abramovic titled her Museum of Modern Art show The Artist Is Present. Why? Because the artist is present. Among the many Abramovic pieces re-created for the exhibition, the one drawing most attention is a simple desk at which the artist has agreed to sit silently for the entire duration of the [...]

Given the gossamer effect of the clothes in Jeffrey Monteiro’s first Resort collection, you would never guess that the designer found his inspiration for the season in architecture. “I went to MoMA for the first time in a few years, and I was studying the Jean Nouvel tower,” Monteiro recalls. “What I like about the [...]

Though his name may not resonate with the masses the way, say, Salvador Dalí’s does, Pierre de Maria was a Surrealist of no little significance—his work hangs in the Guggenheim and at MoMA, for example. For years, however, many of his pieces were languishing in the family archives. Diane de Maria, the artist’s granddaughter, decided [...]

Despite last night’s near arctic temperatures, swaths of people turned out for the Armory Show 2009 Preview Party at MoMA. Under some very trippy lighting effects on the museum’s ground floor, DJ Justin Miller spun disco-punk tunes while guests clustered around one of the many bars (we saw three, at last count). Some guests chose [...]