So much is made of the fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit — otherwise known as the Met Gala — that it can be easy to forget the event is about more than clothes. It’s also a fund-raiser for the museum, which this …
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The New York Nonprofit Where Generations of Artists Got Their Start
The 212 column revisits New York institutions that have helped define the city, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. CURRENTLY PROJECTED ON the walls at Artists Space, a nonprofit arts organization in TriBeCa, are two films by Carolyn …
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This Year’s Met Gala Raises the Most Money in Its History
The Met’s annual fashion party has become a fund-raising juggernaut, but the lavish event comes with a price tag of its own. How much bang does it get for its buck?
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The Tricky Politics of This Year’s Met Gala
The party and its related exhibition, about Black male style, land in a moment when anything to do with race and diversity is under added scrutiny.
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The Art of the Kentucky Derby Hat
When discussing the history of women’s hats in the United States, the designer and author Steven Stolman was reminded of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company,” in which Joanne wryly asks, “Does anyone still wear a hat?” Hats come and go in women’s fashion …
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Her ‘Caveman’ Skin Care Routine Has Skeptics, but She Says It’s Real
Tia Zakher’s videos about not washing her face drew millions of views, numerous questions and some legitimate concern. She insists she’s fine.
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Suit Accuses the Fashion Designer Riccardo Tisci of Sexual Assault
The former creative director of Givenchy and Burberry has denied the allegations that he drugged and assaulted a man in New York last June.
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What Does This Restaurateur, Raconteur and Provocateur Actually Regret?
Keith McNally’s new memoir, “I Regret Almost Everything,” begins at the lowest point of his life, the moment he tried to end it. In 2018, nearly two years after a pair of strokes ravaged his body and wrecked his marriage, he locked his bedroom door …
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The Artist Who Keeps Remaking His Childhood Home
Do Ho Suh, whose major survey exhibition in London opens this week, discusses the power of architecture and finding motivation from mistakes.
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