Thursday night’s tete a tete courtesy of Mark Moran’s The Contemporaries and Chelsea Art Museum turned out to be a rather compelling affair. With the usual art world aficionados, photogenic stars and the groove crowd that we have come to enjoy (and expect) this sojourn was one of the better ones we’d been to in [...]
As the elevator doors opened to the penthouse of the exclusive Crown Building, I was faced with a huge open space – I knew immediately that this would not be an ordinary fashion show. Furs aligned either side of the walls on display for the guests to fawn over and try on. The stilettos of [...]
Turning around suddenly to the whimsical young lady in a shock of blonde and wrapped red dress is Annika Connor. She’s standing there greeting her combustible phone, her hundreds of guests and even managing to wiggle to the beat of a Tuesday night house beat at The Gates. That may all be true but what [...]
“when editors are bored, they drink” said Moran Bar-Kochva, recalling his old days as a journalist, “and then they decide to do some sort of ranking list – ‘the top 10’; ‘the best 50’; ‘the most important 100’”. Such ranks are always exciting and curious – although not always very profound – and on this Thursday, “The [...]
