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Your Day in the Sun
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 26 Dec 2007 at 9:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: As the year comes to a close, I've been day dreaming about all the parties I've covered. The slide show running through my head includes: 1. Brightly colored gowns -- more than I've seen in years past. I' give it a thumbs up. 2. Feathers on gowns, which ...

Podcast: Spanish Beauties Shine in NY
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 20 Dec 2007 at 2:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: In the third Out & About podcast, we take you to the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute gala, where Oscar de la Renta and the queen herself paid tribute to Penelope Cruz and President Clinton. Listen here. Top, Penelope Cruz & Queen Sofia of Spain; bottom, ...

Hiatus for One of New York's Grandest Party Venues
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 15 Dec 2007 at 3:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The New York State Theater's Promenade, set for a party Just as the Plaza Hotel Ballroom's come back on line -- the latest word has the return scheduled for late spring -- New York party lovers will lose of its grandest venues, but again, only ...

What I Learned At the Municipal Art Society Benefit
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 11 Dec 2007 at 12:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: 1. Agnes Gund had a crush on Brendan Gill, and "for a time it was vice versa," she said. 2. The Upper East Side is an under-served neighborhood - because it has so few theaters. The Armory in its new incarnation will provide a venue for performing arts, ...

Social Sugarplums
By Amanda Gordon | Sun, 9 Dec 2007 at 12:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: No adult, no matter how beautiful and elegant and stately and couture-clad, could steal the scene from the children at the New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet benefit party on Saturday featuring cast members from "The Nutcracker." In our ...

Fresh Coat of Glitter at Winter Wonderland Ball
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 8 Dec 2007 at 1:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The dusting of snow yesterday was nothing compared to the heaps of glitter that descended on the New York Botanical Garden last night for the Winter Wonderland Ball, the garden's junior fund-raising party. Clearly all of New York was not at Art Basel ...

Miami Art Basel Swag
By Amanda Gordon | Sat, 8 Dec 2007 at 1:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: One year it was the White Columns canvas tote, another the P.S. 1 preppy sun hat. And this year? We like the assume vivid astro focus one-of-a-kind Banana Republic tee shirts, handed out at a Vanity Fair, Museum of Modern Art Junior Associates party at ...

Lincoln Center's architects in Miami
By Amanda Gordon | Fri, 7 Dec 2007 at 5:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed a "light sock" chandelier using Swarovski crystals for an exhibit during the Design Miami fair (Charles Renfro, Ric Scofidio, and Liz Diller stand in front of it with Nadia Swarovski, who's waering Pucci leggings, in the ...

The Whitney's Miami Beach party
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 6 Dec 2007 at 9:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A dj spinning club-ified 80s, a posh and rigorous check-in machine at the door to make sure guests felt special when they got in, pool-side video installations, and tables covered with photographs of beautiful jewels (designed by party sponsor David ...

So What's the Verdict?
By Amanda Gordon | Thu, 6 Dec 2007 at 1:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A major New York art collector who has been to all past five editions of the Art Basel Miami Beach says this year's fair is the best edition yet. Why? Because unlike in past years, when prices were ridiculously high ("for suckers" were his exact words ...

Miami Beach, it's no NY
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 5 Dec 2007 at 8:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Last night I set out on foot to go to the NetJets party at the Standard hotel, thinking it was on Collins Avenue. But I couldn't find it, so I called the hotel. A concierge helpfully gave me directions that made it sound it was only a few blocks away. ...

Time to Party...
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 5 Dec 2007 at 5:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: The mood at Art Basel Miami Beach mellowed out by 3 o'clock in the afternoon, before an infusion of new collectors, advisers and other folks stopped in for the "Vernissage." By 3, though, a lot had had already sold, including the Evan Penny sculpture of ...

FIRST HOUR of Art Basel Miami Beach
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 5 Dec 2007 at 1:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Tom Wolfe was among the first into the "First Choice" preview of the fair (the official opening day is tomorrow, but there are entry levels all day long today, until 9 p.m.). Marie-Josee Kravis looked at work at PaceWildenstein, Agnes Gund hit James ...

LIVE UPDATES from Art Basel Miami Beach
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 5 Dec 2007 at 11:50 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: Have you visited my live updates at www.twitter.com/amandagordon? And I have a new album showing the way sponsors present themselves at the fair, from the media reception this morning in the VIP lounge. Find it in the photo gallery. ...

Night One in Miami Beach
By Amanda Gordon | Wed, 5 Dec 2007 at 12:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: A white leather hot air balloon was stationed at the Setai tricked out like an Hermes purse. NetJets owners gathered at the Standard to watch a fire thrower on a patio that also featured old-fashioned bathtubs and design-conscious bonfires. The big news ...

Palm Trees. Pictures. Art Babes.
By Amanda Gordon | Tue, 4 Dec 2007 at 4:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Excerpt: I'm in Miami Beach, it's 80 degrees, barely a cloud in a blue sky. When my taxi pulled up to the Loews Hotel, immediately I ran into New Yorkers here for the deluge of parties and art fairs: first I spotted a trustee of SculptureCenter and the Whitney ...