New York Times: Skoll Urgent Threats Fund Formed...surely a sign, if we didn't know already, that philanthropy has been turned on its head. Ebay money and Google talent behind the effort.
Wall Street Journal: Montclair Art Museum to Sell 50 works in hopes of raising $2.9 to $4.3 million
New York Times: Glitterati Testimony May Come In Trial of Brooke Astor's Son
New York Social Diary: Paris Review's Revel on Monday night gets a write-up and beautiful photo gallery from Jill Krementz. The event honored poet John Ashbery and Ms. Krementz has pulled out lots of archival photographs including one from her book "The Writer's Desk." Our favorite party mugs: Zadie Smith and Uzodinma Iweala (who won the 2006 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award) -- a fetching Mary Karr -- an ostrich egg (that's right: it's the prize for the Plimpton Award) -- and the Paris Review's editor, Philip Gourevitch
Patrick McMullan: Baryshnikov Arts Center party pix highlight: Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lauren Bacall, Simone Levinson and Diana DiMenna, Donald Sanders
New York Social Diary: David Patrick Columbia To Speak at City Harvest Luncheon
And coming soon my report on Publicolor's benefit honoring Mary Boone
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