Just another manic Monday. First stop: Jack and Dinos Chapman's exhibit "Little Death Machines" at L&M Arts, on seventy-eighth between Park and Madison.

Highly glossed, exuberantly colored cast-bronze assemblages of motors, milk jugs, and ossified human brains and genitalia filled the two floors. The brothers Chapman seemed to be very preoccupied with the transience of life and the tension between men and machines.

Next, I headed up Madison to ultrachic Francophile clubhouse Bruno Jamais, (named for its debonair restaurateur creator who was formerly maitre'd at Daniel and Alain Ducasse) for dinner in honor of the artists hosted by Dominique Levy and Robert Mnunchin.

After sliding open the brownstone's glass door and passing through a most impressive wine bottle-lined entrance hall, I entered the clandestine, candlelit, living room-like space—all dark mahogany, lacquer, leather tabletops, and mind-blowing art (a Mondrian-printed mannequin towered above my table) for cocktails with Vogue's Hamish Bowles and Carolina Irving (left), Peggy Siegal, Simon de Pury, Jessica Joffee, and Lazaro Hernandez (bottom right), among other arty faithfuls.

After rehashing Costume Institute gala highlights with Lauren Remington Platt (top right), I joined Anh Duong and Cynthia Rowley in the buffet line for Bruno's spectacular short ribs and truffled mac and cheese before heading home to dream about anything other than little death machines.