Steve Martin’s new novel, An Object of Beauty, is a true delight if you’re into Sex and the City, art world scandal, and coming-of-age stories. As with his first book, Shopgirl, Steve Martin continues to amaze me for his effortless impersonation of a twenty-two-year-old girl. Sometimes I feel like he has employed a ghost writer [...]

By now this is old news and you are probably tired of hearing about the performance artist who gave birth in a Brooklyn gallery, but I just wanted to make sure you got the memo. Marni Kotak believes that giving birth is “the highest form of art.” She created an art piece out of it, [...]

‘Please Rape Me,’ my performance art piece at the MoMA was one of the colder experiences of my life, mostly because it was 20 degrees and windy, but also because I was wearing cellophane. But more importantly, it was cold because the art world guests attending the Armory Show Opening Night Benefit Party were so [...]

Soon after I graduated from Yale in 2009, I was drugged, cut up, and violently raped by my ex-boyfriend, but at the time I didn’t realize it was rape. I called my sister from the hotel room in which the incident had taken place: I told her that I had the worst headache of my [...]

I attended the Kiehl’s Holiday Party in Manhattan and had the chance to stalk two of my all-time favorite celebrities: Kyle MacLachlan and Jeff Koons. I love Kyle because he is responsible for the Twin Peaks TV icon Agent Cooper; I love Jeff Koons because he is responsible for installing large pink poodles at Versailles [...]

There is a billionaire in Russia named Roman Abramovich whose girlfriend is into the arts, so naturally he has decided to drop $400 million to make his own museum on an island near St. Petersburg. Roman already has a significant contemporary art collection to install in his museum, and he hopes that others will have [...]

I saw the new Basquiat show at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and it made me think about celebrity. A Brooklyn-born boy of Puerto Rican and Haitian descent, Jean-Michel Basquiat became a star in the art world because he was a talented graffiti artist who caught the attention of some gallery owners.
His work [...]

Last night I went to see a Broadway play, mostly because my sister said that the theme was prostitution and that it was written in the Victorian Era. Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw tells the story of an uptight , straight-laced young woman who reads law books and does actuarial calculations in her [...]

Christie’s is one of the oldest and most prestigious fine art auction houses in the world — ostensibly, a place where one might meet a cultivated and interesting man.
I recently popped into their Rockefeller Center headquarters to say hello to a friend during her lunch hour. As I lounged in lobby, I watched an attractive [...]

At the club in my neighborhood on Thursday nights it is a scene of extreme dance-offs involving large, gay break-dancing men. I felt a bit eclipsed by their skills, but once I broke out my girlish jump split, I felt I had something to add to the evening.
Speaking of feats of dexterity, my new kitten [...]