Interview

"The most miserable, boring, long-winded pathetic pitch I had ever heard in my life," is how producer/screenwriter James Schamus describes his first meeting with director Ang Lee.  BLOG POSTED: 11/19/09

One important thing to know about Rob Pruitt's First Annual Art Awards at the Guggenheim this Thursday, is that the artist likes award shows.  BLOG POSTED: 10/28/09

There's great irony in the fact that Rob Pruitt is the man putting together the Guggenheim’s First Annual Art Awards, a sort of tongue-and-cheek version of the Oscars for contemporary American art. It’s the kind of irony more befitting a Hollywood film script than the New York art scene. On October 29, before an assemblage of heavyweights in the Guggenheim Museum rotunda, faux-champagne-bottle-in-ice-bucket lamp awards will be doled out to the winners of Solo Show of the Year, Group Show of the Year, Curator of the Year, and Artist of the Year, among a myriad of other categories.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/26/09

In anticipation of this Friday's release of Emmanuel Benbihy and Tristan Carné's glittery New York, I Love You, we recall three other love letters to the city.  BLOG POSTED: 10/14/09

The ever-chic chignon is back.  BLOG POSTED: 09/21/09

The Emmy Awards have expanded their nomination pool. Does that dim their prestige?  BLOG POSTED: 07/16/09

Jewels, more jewels, and swirls of jewels at Paris Couture—and rainbow fake eyelashes, courtesy Maison Martin Margiela.  BLOG POSTED: 07/07/09

This year Vogue's most important shindig shockingly overlapped with the the James Beard Foundation Awards Ceremony—better known as the Oscars of food.  BLOG POSTED: 05/05/09