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Six days, two dinners, and one Kim Kardashian West. Seen is practically Kim’s Bff at this point. We met the reality star and mother of Nori (Kourtney was babysitting that night) once again at the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (Acria) gala last night, which is, as executive director Benjamin Bashein describes, “a charity with strong holds in the art, fashion, media, and design fields.” Acria, besides fearlessly pioneering HIV/AIDS research, is also well known for its art auctions, in part because many of its board members and friends are highly celebrated artists such as Ross Bleckner, Jack Pierson, Ryan McGinley, and Rob Pruitt (who were all there).The dinner now includes some 450 guests (up from the intimate 200) and kicked off with your typical holiday glitz and glamour at Skylight West (last night was first time in ten years the event was not held at Donna Karan...
- 12/11/2014
- by Julie Baumgardner
- Vulture
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Miami Art Basel is finally winding down, and Seen takes one last look — from an Alexander Calder to the photographs of Jack Pierson. Click on the slideshow below to see Tim Barber's photographs from the convention center, as well as his late-night escape to the rooftop of an abandoned building. Follow Tim on Instagram at @timobarber, or see his website for more.
- 12/6/2014
- by Tim Barber
- Vulture
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Over five decades, from the forties until his death in 1992, photographer Bob Mizer built his own libidinal archipelago on West 11th Street in downtown Los Angeles. This compound, surrounding a boardinghouse his mother owned where he lived his whole life, served as headquarters for what he called the Athletic Model Guild, and as home to a churn of young, often troubled men he photographed for Amg’s magazine Physique Pictorial.This was a risky operation at first—Mizer even went to jail for distributing his photos through the mail. But he was, in his way, both a visionary and a relentless entrepreneur, serving, and to some extent stoking and shaping, what was then an outsider market for idealized depictions of male beauty. Painter David Hockney credited Physique Pictorial with inspiring his move to L.A., and Mizer took pictures of notable hotties like Alan Ladd, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joe Dallesandro,...
- 10/28/2013
- by Carl Swanson
- Vulture
Various artists: NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star The New Museum Through May 26, 2013
and
Julian Schnabel 1978–1981
Oko
Through March 30, 2012
One must turn to the past to move forward.-- Akan proverb
We are sitting around a banquette at Nell’s, well sorted, and I am overwhelmed with a vague sadness all of a sudden -- the conversations around the table, a sonic penumbra: who has new tits (girls with names like Coriander and Chloe), who is in rehab (“she has a nasal addiction”), who fucked whom with what (don’t ask), and possibly, for the first time in recent memory, I no longer care what I am wearing (Comme des Garçons leather jacket over a vintage Led Zeppelin t-shirt, imitation of Imitation of Christ store-torn jeans, Prada driving shoes, with no socks, as my awesome new ankle tattoo -- neo-tribal -- is still too fresh and...
and
Julian Schnabel 1978–1981
Oko
Through March 30, 2012
One must turn to the past to move forward.-- Akan proverb
We are sitting around a banquette at Nell’s, well sorted, and I am overwhelmed with a vague sadness all of a sudden -- the conversations around the table, a sonic penumbra: who has new tits (girls with names like Coriander and Chloe), who is in rehab (“she has a nasal addiction”), who fucked whom with what (don’t ask), and possibly, for the first time in recent memory, I no longer care what I am wearing (Comme des Garçons leather jacket over a vintage Led Zeppelin t-shirt, imitation of Imitation of Christ store-torn jeans, Prada driving shoes, with no socks, as my awesome new ankle tattoo -- neo-tribal -- is still too fresh and...
- 2/16/2013
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
There is this smelly-looking Frenchman who swanned onto our social scene a few seasons ago who clearly fancies himself as the cat’s pajamas. He created and currently edits one of those edgy fashion magazines with an astute following. “Smegmacula,” as the G-Spot will refer to him henceforth (think “Smegma” meets “Dracula”), considers himself the hipster-louche playmaker of the Gotham demimonde. When G.W. spots the ubiquitous night crawler out and about, orchestrating a moment inside the scene’s chicest bon-chic-bon genre, one cannot help but wax poetic: “Oh, there’s Smegmacula. Wow—that purple crown of his must be ripe and florid right about now.” It was thus rather surprising that Smegmacula was nowhere in sight at the Bowery Hotel last Friday night for the divine cocktail party hosted by P.R. princess Bettina Prentice and artist Peter McGough to celebrate the premiere of his 20-minute short film Mean to Me,...
- 2/25/2010
- Vanity Fair
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