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DEAR READERS, GABRIELA HERMAN

WELCOME TO OUR ART ISSUE! The next day, after a visit to Ballroom Marfa, the AVENUE is, as you know, a magazine amazing kunsthalle that Fairfax cofounded (read Jason that typically celebrates the achieveFarago’s excellent interview with Fairfax to get a true ments of Manhattan denizens. So sense of her fantastic accomplishment), we piled in it’s unusual for us to take the step of Fairfax’s car and drove to an empty stretch of highway traveling off the island. However, when right off the Dorn family’s land. Fairfax had grabbed a Fairfax Dorn invited me to Marfa, couple of clothing changes, including a vintage, neverTexas, to experience Marfa Myths, worn-before Geoffrey Beene dress, which had belonged the art and music festival she’s the to her grandmother. Fairfax’s hair and makeup were cocreator of, I have to say I leapt taken care of by her close friend Andee Radu Friedrich. at the chance. I was not especially Fairfax’s husband, Marc was the accidental prop stylist: interested in the works of he released the tumbleweed.

Donald Judd or Minimalism I love these shots: Hayfa Abdullah before I left, but on my they reflect the wide first morning at the Chinati open beauty of Marfa, which echoes the beauty of Fairfax. To me, she’s a true Texas rose in every sense.

Speaking of traveling, I wrote this month’s story on H.R.H. Princess Hayfa Abdullah, an artist from Saudi Arabia who has come to New York for her first solo show at the Neville Stellan Holm Gallery. In Wakefield 2006, I was lucky enough Foundation, where I was given a private tour by Valerie Arber, to visit the country and a highly knowledgeable and extremely even traveled to Jeddah, nice artist in her own right, I was the port city where Princess Hayfa and her husband, converted. To me, Marfa’s a living museum, Prince Abdulaziz, live. It’s a magical place, and I agree a temple to one person’s ideas and taste, with Hayfa that it has the best light. The people are just as much as the Frick Collection is here. kind and friendly, and I couldn’t have been treated with Fairfax and her husband, Marc more politeness or respect. I have the fondest memories Glimcher, are the most charming and of my trip. So, I’m delighted to know that when Hayfa welcoming hosts. One of Fairfax’s guests and Abdulaziz came to New York, post 9/11, they were was Douglas Friedman, a highly talented extended the same respect and courtesy I was given in photographer I’ve been dying to work their country. Nothing could make me prouder of being with. We met at the weekend’s opena New Yorker than that. ing party, had a lovely chat and decided Enjoy the issue. to shoot the cover in Marfa that weekend. Spontaneity and creativity Daisy Prince seem to go hand-in-hand in Marfa, in a moment that seems indicative of the way things are done down there, instead of shaking hands to seal the deal, we clinked our Negra Modelos Editor together instead.

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To me, Marfa’s a living museum, a temple to one person’s ideas and taste, just as much as the Frick Collection is here.

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Hayfa Abdullah on what inspires her and her first solo show in New York

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DIAMONDS ARE SERVED Art-inspired gems redefine served on the rocks

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Fairfax Dorn talks to us about her pioneering efforts to put Texas on the art map and the magic of Marfaland

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Neville Wakefield on what makes him a cultural ambassador

by michael miller photographed by ben fink shapiro

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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE It was a night of glamour, fashion and art at the annual Art Production Gala, attended by creative New Yorkers like Chloë Sevigny, Rachel Feinstein, John Currin, Cindy Sherman, Ryan McGinley and others. Sponsored by Gucci, this year’s theme was Concrete Jungle, and things got wild as party guests enjoyed music, art performances, portrait sessions and temporary tattoo booths.

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Guests like Solange Knowles, Cleo Wade, Mia Moretti, Zoe Buckman and Fabiola Beracasa Beckman came to Minton’s, New York’s historic jazz club, to soak in all the magic of the Big Easy, dancing the night away and bringing attention to New Orleans’ blossoming art scene.

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New York’s next generation of art activists attended the Guggenheim 2016 Young Collectors Party, sponsored

by David Yurman. The new wave of art collectors included Leandra Medine, Bee Shaffer and Claire Distenfeld, among others. Hosted by Sarah Arison, Laura de Gunzburg and Nell Diamond, the well-heeled crowd was treated to an evening of music and mini whoopee pies.

1. Laura de Gunzburg 2. Lindsay Ellingson 3. Kyle Hotchkiss Carone and Claire Distenfeld 4. Dalia Oberlander 5. Bee Shaffer 6. Sarah Arison

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BLOND AMBITION Aby Rosen hosted an opening weekend party to toast his new party hot spot, the Blond, inside the trendy 11 Howard. Among the attendees were Angelo Bianchi, Martha Hunt, Jasmine Tookes, Stacey Bendet, Fabiola Beracasa Beckman, Wendi Murdoch, Samantha Boardman and many more of New York’s glitterati. Some guests sipped on signature cocktails surrounded by bronze busts and other artwork exclusive to the lounge, while others enjoyed the imaginative beats by the night’s emcee, Madison LST. 1. Jon Neidich and Charlie Rosen 2. Samantha Boardman and Aby Rosen 3. Brooke Garber Neidich and Allison Sarofim 4. Stacey Bendet 5. Marjorie Gubelmann, Wendy Hoh and Gervaise Gerstner 6. Wendi Murdoch and Fabiola Beracasa Beckman 7. Tabitha Simmons 8. Tom Sachs, Walton Ford and Alberto Mugrabi 9. Gaby Rosen and Isabella Trentalancia

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New York Academy of Art’s Tribeca Ball Honors Eva and Michael Chow

The 21st annual New York Academy of Art’s Tribeca Ball paid tribute to one of the art world’s longest reigning couples, Eva and Michael Chow. Sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels, the celebratory evening brought out a dynamic cross section of fashion, art, film and business personages, such as Linda Fargo, David Kratz, Eileen Guggenheim, Alain Bernard, Vera Wang, Naomi Watts, André Balasz and others, who enjoyed an intricate reception and live entertainment.

1. Misha Nonoo 2. Michael Chow and Al Pacino 3. Beth Rudin DeWoody and Firooz Zahedi 4. Stefano Tonchi and Eva Chow 5. David Kratz and Helen Lee Schifter 6. André Balazs 7. Marina Abramovic and Dustin Yellin 8. Linda Fargo

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A fashionable crowd assembled at the CFDA nominee and honoree announcement party at the New Museum. Nadja Swarovski and Diane von Furstenberg announced 2016 stylish nominees, such as Joseph Altuzarra, Marc Jacobs, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, and Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen of the Row. Fashion luminaries like Anna Wintour and Norma Kamali were present, and the nominees reveal was followed by cocktails.

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Roger Vivier Fetes Collaboration with Camille Seydoux

Fashionable uptown ladies flocked to Maman bakery in Tribeca for the Roger Vivier Luncheon celebrating a capsule collection with stylist Camille Seydoux, the mastermind behind her actress sister Léa’s many red carpet looks. Cohosted by Garance Doré, Prismick Denim collection’s patchwork denim accessories were a hit with all the attendees, like Kate Foley and Indre Rockefeller.

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SCREENINGS AND SOCIALIZING Inside a fresh round of premiere parties this spring

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pring break—whether or not, you are springing or breaking—leaves New York in a slightly calmer vacuum between seasons. What a perfect time to luxuriate in the things we do so well: theater, film and art.

The Atlantic Theater Company, which has brought us Spring Awakening and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, among 150 other notable plays, celebrated appropriately: the Actor’s Choice Gala—actors featuring their favorite music. Mary Steenburgen, a member of their ensemble, introduced her friends Jason Sudeikis and Will Forte, who sang “Falling Slowly” from the Tony Award– and Grammy Award–winning musical Once. “They have that down!” we commented to Jason’s fiancée, the undeniably beautiful and talented Olivia Wilde. “They should,” she said. “They do it everywhere and any time they can—karaoke, parties . . .” Jason bonded with Emily Chapman, Lisle Davies, our hostess, board member Betsy Pitts, over their shared Kansas childhood. Hmmm . . . they Betsy Pitts and Laurie Mandelbaum are definitely not in Kansas anymore. David Richenthal and his foundation were honored for their longtime support for ATC. The audience included Claudia and Gunnar Overstrom, Blair Husain, Emily Mortimer, Larry and Dana Creel, Serena and William Lese, and Nancy Sambuco.

Doyenne of documentaries Sheila Nevins knew that Katharina Otto-Bernstein, who created Absolute Wilson, the acclaimed film about Robert Wilson, was the right producer to capture the controversial and talented Robert Mapplethorpe. Katharina actually discovered similarities between Wilson and Mapplethorpe—conservative, disapproving fathers, and their dramatic, artistic rebellions against them. What a long way Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989, Will Forte, Jason Sudeikis, Mary Steenburgen and Jake has come—from Jesse Helms’ forcing the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Ted Danson at The Pierre Hotel Gyllenhaal D.C. to cancel his exhibit during the year of his death, to two current, parallel retrospectives at LACMA and the Getty Museum, not to mention the definitive portrait in Katharina’s doc, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures. The film had an L.A. premiere, followed by an intimate celebration at Kathy and Rick Hilton’s. In New York, HBO gathered 30 of the 50 subjects interviewed in the film, including Mapplethorpe’s first beau, David Croland, and Parker Posey, as well as Jack Walls, Rufus Wainwright, Peter Marino, Mary Boone, Klaus Biesenbach Chris Cooper and and directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.

Chloë Sevigny Tony Shalhoub Just when I thought, I can’t watch Ex Machina or Bridge of Spies for the seventh time, a new flock of fabulous films rolled into New York and offered fun premieres by the Cinema Society. The best of the latest was Demolition, which literally busted into our consciousness at the new theater, the Metrograph, followed by the still supreme Top of the Standard. The cast is recommendation enough, and they were all there: Naomi Watts, Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, and an amazing young fellow of whom we will see much more, Judah Lewis. It was a maternal evening. Naomi came with her chic mom, who lives in the south of France. Jake came with his talented mom. (Have you noticed this is a thing? Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper take their moms, too, because they aren’t maddeningly perfect enough already.) And I brought my son, but who cares?

Fenton Bailey, Sara Bernstein, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, The equally glamorous crowd included Jon Bon Jovi, Clive Naomi Watts Sheila Nevins and Randy Barbato Davis, Roger Waters, Fisher Stevens and Julian Sands. ✦

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FEASTS FOR THE SENSES This month’s selection of art and culture

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April 14 - May 21 Beckett's Space No. 2, 1974 by Robert Motherwell

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May 6 – 17: Picasso Ceramics May 6 – 18: Art as Jewelry May 10 – 11: Post-War & Contemporary May 10 – 19: European Modernism and the Avant-Garde May 12 – 13: Impressionist and Modern Art May 19: American Art May 25 – 26: Latin American Art

May 4: 19th Century European Paintings May 11: Impressionist and Modern Art May 12: Post-War & Contemporary Art May 18: American Art

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LEHMANN MAUPIN May 5 – June 18: Tracey Emin: Stone Love April 21 – June 19: Adriana Varejão: Kindred Spirits 536 West 22nd Street New York, NY 10011 201 Chrystie Street New York, NY 10002 212.255.2923 lehmannmaupin.com

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Akihisa Hirata. Foam Form, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Project. 2011. © Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office and Kuramochi + Oguma

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART March 26 – July 24: Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty March 13 – July 4: A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond March 19 – September 5: Rachel Harrison: Perth Amboy 11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 212.708.9400 moma.org

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March 13 - July 4

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New York Brooklyn Bridge II, 1913, by Hermann Struck.

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ARTFULLY BOUND The crafted assemblage of picks for an imaginative summer

Art Visionary

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri

To celebrate the first anniversary of their iconic Whitney Bag, Max Mara is releasing a reimagined version that pays homage to the museum’s founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. An artist and a style icon, Whitney was an art world pioneer as the first woman to open a major American art museum in New York City. This artsy crowd essential is inspired by John Singer Sargent’s image of Whitney, the subject clad in harem pants; the painting’s background features leaf and flower motifs, which are also found on the bag. The piece comes in a refined iridescent shade evoking Gertrude’s pearl necklace and will make for a perfect companion for socializing in a New York art gallery or for summering in Newport à la Ms. Whitney herself. maxmara.com

Haute Funhouse

Whether your summer entertainment plans involve throwing an intimate Hamptons cocktail party or celebrating the launch of a new project, Van Wyck & Van Wyck is the company that will execute your creative vision with artful precision. Bronson van Wyck, the event producer extraordinaire behind the city’s chicest parties, is launching Workshop, a full service agency specializing in the execution of brand projects. From Goop to Bergdorf Goodman, Van Wyck produced some of the most acclaimed events in the past 15 years. Workshop will build upon these relationships to work as a collaborative partner for a range of clients, including Chanel, Patek Philippe, Cartier, Range Rover, Jaguar and others. Every event has a story to tell. Let Workshop’s artful storytellers tell yours. workshopworldwide.com Van Wyck & Van Wyck event for Clinique

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Warm weather calls for light palettes, and white is the choice color for the sartorially chic. The crisp monochrome serves as a blank canvas for the well-heeled to express themselves when it comes to resort wear. Everything But Water, a luxe one-stop shopping mecca for a getaway wardrobe, celebrates this minimalist color by unveiling their first concept shop for a 26-piece line, White: The Capsule Collection. It contains only white resort wear, swimwear, and accessories by the top designers created exclusively for the concept store and embodying the resort lifestyle. Some of the designers include Marysia, Mara Hoffman, PilyQ, Karla Colletto, Solid & Striped and others. Hurry up before Labor Day strikes! everythingbutwater.com

The Brushstrokes Behind A Perfect Line

The beauty products ingredients today read like a Michelinstarred chef grocery shopping list: caviar, truffles and sea salt . . . Summertime is the easy going season of simplicity and is a perfect time for going back to basics when it comes to your skin care. Dr. Devgan Scientific Beauty is a luxury medical-grade skin care line designed by Dr. Lara Devgan, the award-winning Upper East Side’s plastic surgeon, who has 18 years of experience working in Yale biochemistry labs and Johns Hopkins research facilities. Each product is artfully finessed to stripped down clinical efficacy, containing FDA-approved, scientifically tested ingredients. Products like Platinum Glow Serum, Platinum Hyaluronic Serum, Platinum Vitamin C+ Luminous Night Serum and Platinum Eye Repair Complex are an artful powerhouse of four antiaging products, which will work synergistically together to reduce fine lines, fade dark spots, even skin tone, rejuvenate the delicate skin around the eyes and give you a total skin makeover in the course of just 4 weeks. These essentials will be the foundational brushstrokes behind all your skin care masterpieces. laradevganmd.com

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A Charmed Scent

Fragrance has a magical way of transporting us to a place far, far away, so escape to Brazil, Madagascar or Tuscany with Lisa Hoffman Beauty’s latest foray into fine fragrance jewelry. Featuring semiprecious stones like ruby, amethyst and mother of pearl, as well as signature treasure charms that gradually release scents, these bracelets, necklaces and earrings come in 14-karat gold, rose gold or sterling silver. The infused beads include aromas reminiscent of exotic locales, scents like Madagascar Orchid, Japanese Agarwood, Kerala Ashok Garden, and others. The website also has a create-your-own bracelet tool to customize your own little treasure or a few of them, to stack up with those flowy seaside caftans. lisahoffman.com

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or the discerning man who desires to add a bit of wit and whimsy to a black tie affair, Trianon’s line of original cuff links provide the perfect complement. Designed by Anthony Hopenhajm, who is also the president and CEO of renowned jewelers Seaman Schepps, Trianon cuff links celebrate handcrafted traditions and the intrinsic beauty of natural materials.

“What really inspires us are the materials that we work with,” says Hopenhajm of his company’s cuff links, all of which are made with 18 karat gold. Like the Seaman Schepps lines, the cuff links are handmade in a studio on 46th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, ensuring that all of the cuff links are original. Jewelers work with each individual stone, and they’re able to cut, treat and carve pieces in a way that can’t be done in mass production. “Because of the nature of each stone, every pair will look slightly different,” says Hopenhajm.

“We find that alluring.” Trianon’s signature style is the shell cuff links, and care is taken to match each stone to its mate.

What makes Trianon unique, continues Hopenhajm, is that they don’t adapt their line to flash-inthe-pan, seasonal trends. In keeping with the tradition of the brand, Trianon creates classic pieces that will always be in style. And, “our cuff links are always made to be cuff links,” says Hopenhajm, noting that other cuff links are often originally created as earrings or other pieces of jewelry.

The handmade nature of the pieces allows Hopenhajm to create new lines that are different from what other jewelers are able to do, because they’re able to truly work with a stone to allow its natural beauty to shine. “Our newest group is the Canton collection,” says Hopenhajm.

The hand-carved pieces come in jade, turquoise and lapis.

Trianon was founded by Hopenhajm and partner Jay Bauer in

Anthony Hopenhajm LEFT: Engina Shell set with Pearl in 18 Karat Yellow Gold

Trianon cuff links celebrate handcrafted traditions and the intrinsic beauty of natural materials.

1979. “We started to do jewelry that was different than the way people do jewelry,” says Hopenhajm. “There was a synergy between us and Seaman Schepps.” Trianon purchased Seaman Schepps in 1992, and the line of cuff links is sold at the Seaman Schepps Park Avenue location.

“The elegant finishing touch for a man is a cuffed shirt,” says Hopenhajm. And cuff links provide that extra flourish, whether you’re out for a charity gala or a night at Soho House. ✦

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ETIQUETTE EXCELLENCE His lordship responds to all your social decorum queries

Summer Daze Beekman Place, New York

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My Darling Lightweight, There is a reason why Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons, giving musical expression to the seasons . . . “When Spring appears in splendour.” Whether violin concerti or one’s attire, there is many a metaphor for the individual seasons. As we all well know (particularly those like Yours Truly who serves as an advisor ex officio to the New York Philharmonic, among other cultural totems), Vivaldi had the viola section evoke a barking dog during his Rite of Spring.

Sadly, we no longer reside in the mores—nor music—of the 18th century (although a Netflix binge of Barry Lyndon will quickly make you wish you were. Ah, if only we were all forever bathed in such candlelit chiaroscuro as that of the great Kubrick . . . ).

But I digress. His Lordship hereby declares that his Fifth Avenue fiefdom show some latitude in regard to when to break out the khaki suit or floral headdress. In today’s environment, we mustn’t ignore that environmental phenomenon commonly referred to as global warming (Note to Manners’ Personal Secretary: Pen Note to Al Gore Re: His Request for The Manners’ Detroit Diet ‘Eat My Words’ so he can fit into his 265 dollar Everest Isles swim trunks by June. My goodness, how that man can bloat overnight! The vice presidency truly isn’t worth more than a bucket of spit . . . LBJ’s choice of words. Not mine).

Live a little. Adjust accordingly to the fickle ways of the weather.

Don’t go jaunting down the avenue in something akin to your croquet outfit (and with Pimm’s in hand). And, yes, the lighter hues—for both He and She—are now perfectly permissible prior to Memorial Day. While on the subject of a befitting fit for more temperate climates, I also proclaim (trumpet roll, please, Teddy the Mutt . . .) that each and every gentleman take it upon himself to don a short sleeve shirt under his suit during sultry summer days in the city. Do away with this silly (non-) sense of shame about not wearing your divine, bespoke Albini French cuff shirt and Hermès cuff links. Let us not forget the fundamentals: An undershirt is mandatory. Not just during the chill of winter, but also during the Dantesque heat of a July afternoon. Who among us wants to witness rivulets of sweat streaming beneath your shirt? (Just as there is good reason why the Colonial English chose to imbibe hot tea: It conversely cools you down. An undershirt will do wonders. And some piping hot tea is a far better choice than toting some silly drink by the name of Zero Water or the like).

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To the Kind Attention of the Honorable Lord of the Manner: I recently split from my wife of some twenty-five years. The ensuing parting of the ways of our mutual friends was almost as difficult as giving up the various Dubuffets my dearly departed grandmum left me (Well, not really. My wife’s co-opting of my precious persimmon wood drivers is far too painful to explain). My question: What is it with this catchall word “amicable” that seems to rule denizens of the Upper East Side in regard to how they approach a newly separated couple? It certainly wasn’t included in the 300-page document that I served her with (courtesy of Shearman & Sterling’s Best and Brightest!). To think: I’m a pariah at Piping Rock. And I pay her goddamn dues!

The “Amicable” One The Bachelor Suite, The Lowell Hotel New York, New York

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Dear He-Who-Is-Now-Relegated-to-the-Driving-Range, Tsk, tsk, tsk. Why must even the most sophisticated Americans abide by such trivial rules of play when it comes to postmarital messiness?

And when I say “Americans,” I do not use the term in jest. It is a sad day when civilized society allows itself to succumb to such silly standards such as ignoring one ex-spouse while embracing the other. Caveat: Let it be understood that we are speaking in the broadest of terms: e.g., the most heinous of misbehavior such as, say, infidelity, which dates back further in history than prostitution, our most aged of professions. Spousal murder via a spoonful of arsenic is not included in the below counsel.

(Sorry, Claus. Then again, my good friend and backgammon adversary Mr. von Bülow has since wisely alighted across the pond.)

I challenge you to poll those European friends whom you and your ex-beloved once shared as great pals while you were together. You will discover that they are infinitely more sensible when it comes to such ridiculous rivalries and so-called “rules of play” regarding talking to one ex or the other. A properly raised European shuns such behavior (besides, European couples, particularly of the aristocratic bent, all have affairs—and, in the case of the husband, not necessarily with a woman). They address you both equally following your day in court.

They invite you both to dinner parties in an equitable way, just as they

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Your Lordship (or is it “Your Lordliness”?): Does the rule regarding wearing light fabrics and colors only after Memorial Day still apply? Or am I just being a fuddy-duddy?

Ladies, take heed. The same edict applies to you (less the undershirt, of course). Flaunt thy legs, O Fair Ones (within reason: We wouldn’t want you denied entrance to the Colony Club). Bare thy arms. To hell with whether they are perfectly toned. We of the “manner” born take delight in imperfection. Consistency is indeed the hobgoblin of human life (apologies to Monsieur Thoreau).

would have when you were a delightful twosome (even if you were throwing Fabergé eggs at one another when behind closed doors).

For our American readers, ’tis true: the phrase “amicable” is an unfortunate reality. But the term is a farce. If one’s friends hear that the two of you are now “amicable,” only then do they take it upon themselves not to shun one of you. Needless to say, more often than not, it is the wife who by that time has won the so-called PR Game, thanks to the mouthpieces of her girlfriends and gay friends (the majority of whom are vastly unhappy in their own lives and hence serve up the most incendiary advice). And while you find yourself playing Tic-Tac-Toe against oneself in your temporary pied-a-terre, that suite at the Lowell, your wife puts on her best “victim” face at a dinner party down the block.

What nonsense! What couple is ever truly “amicable” following a parting of the ways? It is time for such behavior among society to cease and desist and they treat each of you the same. And, if not, stop with this unsaid rule that friends cannot speak to both of you until you hear from one of the two parties concerned that you are now “amicable.”

If there is one thing His Manners cannot abide by is petty propriety.

Besides, you’re not getting any younger.

Q:

Dear “Lord” of the Rings, Is it effete for a man to wear a ring? And, if not, what do you consider the “right” ring?

Mr. Hand Ridgemont High New Jersey

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My Dear Ring-a-Ding-Ding, Don’t fret. Manners is not going to wring your neck. These are Fast Times. Your earnest query is au courant and of the moment.

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John James Audubon’s Washington Heights homestead in 1857, six years after his death.

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n West 158th Street west of Riverside Drive—a steep sluiceway for cars streaming down to the Henry Hudson Parkway—stands a handsome if bedraggled row of houses that seems to have been forgotten by time. The twelve houses, eclectic brick-and-limestone dwellings capped variously by gables or pressed-metal cornices, were all completed by 1898, making them the oldest surviving buildings within the historic footprint of Audubon Park, the name given to the lands of the great naturalist John James Audubon after his death in 1851.

When New York City created the Audubon Park Historic District between West 155th and 158th Streets in 2009, it left out this plucky row, 626–648 West 158th. Now, some area residents, in alliance with the Riverside Oval Association, are seeking to redress that omission.

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these Audubon Park neighbors prepare a request for the city landmarks commission to expand the historic district to include the houses.

This local effort has particular historical resonance, as it echoes the attempts by the preservationist Reginald P. Bolton, the first resident of one of the row houses, No. 638, to save Audubon’s homestead from the wrecking ball a century ago.

The area was still country when Audubon moved uptown from White Street to escape what he called “the pestilential vapors” of city life. In 1841, he paid $4,938 for 14 acres of woodland along the Hudson River extending north from 155th Street (an unpaved cart path at the time). There, near the southern margin of his land, he built a two-anda-half-story clapboard frame house over an English basement, with green shutters and verandahs front and back.

It was a comfortable if crowded home. The first floor held a dining room, a living room, a pantry, Audubon’s painting room and a library.

The second floor had five bedrooms. Audubon and his wife, Lucy, slept

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The Victorianized Audubon house in 1916, with the 40-foot retaining wall of Riverside Drive wrapping around it.

Inhabitants of the 20th century could walk right up to the edge of Riverside Drive and peer down at the 19th century.

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765 Riverside Drive, built on the site of the Audubon homestead in 1932.

The deteriorating Audubon house peeking out from below Riverside Drive around 1920.

in the southwestern one, with two grandchildren in a trundle bed. The Audubons’ two sons, Victor and John Woodhouse, and their wives and children were scattered about in other rooms on that floor. In the basement were the kitchen and laundry room, which was rented for a time by the inventor Samuel F. B. Morse for telegraph experiments.

The land, to which Victor added six acres, was picturesque.

Waves rolled onto the beach near the house, and the family planted a peach orchard and cornfields. A stream ran through the property, widening into a pond that gave way to a waterfall. According to Harriet Audubon, a granddaughter of the wildlife artist, there were live animals in cages, including foxes and a muskrat. Audubon named the area Minniesland for his wife, whom his sons called Minnie, the Scottish word for “mother.”

The Audubons’ first five years there were “Arcadian,” according to Matthew Spady, an avid independent historian who is developing a book proposal on Audubon Park after more than 15 years of digging up every relevant deed, map and letter he could get his hands on.

Income from an edition of Birds of America, Audubon’s signature work, “provided them a healthy revenue stream,” Mr. Spady said, “and the farm offered them a certain amount of self-sufficiency.”

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finances following suit. In 1851, at the age of 65, the naturalist died in his painting room.

The Hudson River Railroad had arrived two years earlier, cutting off Minniesland from the water but also bringing the area within commuting distance of downtown. To make ends meet, Lucy Audubon and her sons sold the eastern portion of their property and developed the remainder into a suburb, called Audubon Park, where they rented and sold homes.

“They exercised as much control over who moved in as a co-op board would,” Mr. Spady said. “All the initial people who moved in were Episcopalians of the merchant class.”

The Audubon sons built houses for themselves in the park, with Lucy dividing her time between the two, and in 1864 the original Audubon homestead was sold off. The buyer was Jesse Benedict, a lawyer, who tarted up the unpretentious frame house in a Victorian mode.

A new mansard roof, all but de rigueur in the post–Civil War period, enlarged the top floor, while bay windows were appended to two sides.

The atmosphere there in the late 1800s was not entirely serene. As a neighbor, Minnie Stone Martin, recounted in written recollections obtained by Mr. Spady, one of the Miss Benedicts “complained that no sooner did a ‘beau’ start to commit himself than a freight train would

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and the conversion of the remnants of come by and by the time the 100Minniesland into a public park. But odd cars had gone clanking past, the in 1929 the New York City Board of young man would think better of it!”

Estimate rejected the idea. When the In 1888, city records show, the house was sold to a developer in 1931, Benedict heirs sold the house to Bolton mounted an eleventh-hour William Kramer, owner of the Row houses on West 158th Street, effort to have it moved, but was unable Atlantic Garden, a Bowery barbuilt on land once owned by Audubon. to raise adequate funds. room and concert hall beloved by Th e developer’s wreckers had already begun tearing off the porches Germans. Kramer rented the house to a succession of tenants, and roof when Harold Decker, a Bronx ornithologist, stepped forward including Daniel F. Tiemann, a former mayor of New York. with the money to relocate the house.

The building was transported But it wasn’t long before the house was cut off from the eastern in sections to parkland at 161st Street and Riverside, where Decker portion of Audubon Park, most of which was owned by the Grinnell told Th e New York Times it would be restored.

But instead, the house family. Working with political allies, the Grinnells wangled an extension vanished.

What became of it is unknown, though amid the Great of Riverside Drive from downtown that departed from its straight path Depression it seems likely that it was picked apart by scavengers. All at Audubon Park, taking a curving course inland from 155th to 158th that survives of the Audubon homestead are a few scraps, such as a Streets that assured the Grinnells maximum frontage on the new drive. fl oorboard fragment at the New-York Historical Society.

Consequently, by the early 1900s the Audubon house had a 40-foot In 1932, a Medieval Revival–style apartment building, 765 Riverside retaining wall at its back, with the incomplete roadway of Riverside Drive, went up on the original site of the Audubon house, built on Drive looming above it. Apartment houses began rising on the eastern steel piles running 45 feet below curb level. A sister building next door side of Riverside, and by the time the Audubon Park section of the at 775 Riverside, completed in 1930, was recently converted into a drive opened in 1911, a bizarre situation had developed. In essence, condominium.

A big sign running across its façade trumpets its name: inhabitants of the 20th century could walk right up to the edge of Th e John James. ✦ Riverside Drive and peer down at the 19th century—the deteriorating Audubon homestead and the remnants of Minniesland.

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MARFA Fairfax Dorn’s Ballroom Marfa is bringing in talented artists from all around the world to come and live, show and play in the wonderland of West Texas.

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here are two ways to get to Marfa, the mythical and increasingly chic outpost for contemporary art in the far stretches of West Texas.

If you have a Cessna at your disposal, you can glide into a little airfield to the north of town. But for the proper experience, to fully appreciate Marfa’s splendid isolation, you have to go by car. Pick one up in Austin and drive due west, as the landscape gives way to the high, parched plains of the Chihuahuan Desert.

Keep driving, for seven hours. Just when you can’t take it anymore, just when you think the road will stretch forever, you’ll hit a single traffic light, which always blinks yellow. The great appeal of Marfa, Texas, is that it isn’t close to anything and getting there, slowly, will prepare you for its unique appeal.

THOUGHTFUL, DYNAMIC, YET PRECISE WITH HER OWN WORDS, DORN HAS BECOME BOTH THE ADVOCATE AND THE STANDARD-BEARER FOR A 21ST CENTURY MARFA.

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“Marfa is a place that also exists in your mind,” says Fairfax Dorn, the cofounder and artistic director of the nonprofit arts foundation Ballroom Marfa, when we meet in New York on a decidedly undesert-like winter morning. In the thirteen years since its foundation, Ballroom Marfa has not only brought contemporary art of international scope to rural Texas; it’s also created exhibitions and permanent installations that have ricocheted out of the desert and across the world.

(One early project, Elmgreen and Dragset’s Prada Marfa, has almost become shorthand for the new energy in the tiny town.) Thoughtful, dynamic, yet precise with her own words, Dorn has become both the advocate and the standard-bearer for a 21st-century Marfa. And while she is now one of the most visible and effective figures on New York’s art scene, she still has one foot firmly planted in the small town in the desert with a big profile.

Dorn started her career as a painter, and never set out to become a director of an arts institution. Nor did she plan to set down roots

in Marfa, a town forever linked with the artist Donald Judd, whose Chinati Foundation, devoted largely to minimalist sculpture, is as holy a site for art world types as Lourdes is for Catholic pilgrims. “What they do they do very well,” Dorn insists. “But I thought we could be a counterpart to Chinati. We could show mostly living artists, and you could have an experience similar to how you experience art at Chinati, but ever changing.” More than a decade on, that protean sensibility has not only had an impact on the world of contemporary art, it’s also made Marfa into a more experimental and more vigorous town, with repercussions as far as New York City.

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airfax Dorn is a born-and-bred Texas girl. Born in San Antonio, the scion of two ranching families, she moved with her family to Corpus Christi until her teenage years—her father’s management of an oil and gas business necessitated frequent moves. Then came Denver, but Dorn missed the Lone Star State so much that she enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied studio art. She was following in the footsteps of one beloved family member: her grandmother Nancy Negley. Negley, who made collages and painted still lifes, was an early benefactor of the San Antonio Museum of Art; later she joined the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Dia Art Foundation, as well as the American Academy in Rome.

“Early in my life, because my family was involved in the arts, I always resisted it,” Dorn says. She might have escaped were it not for a role model at the University of Texas: the painter Peter Saul, known for his churning, cartoonish, politically trenchant canvases in Day-Glo colors. “He was my mentor. I studied with him for three years. I see him everywhere now, but he was a tough teacher, and focused on the work.” (Much later, in 2013, Dorn curated the show “Comic Future” at Ballroom Marfa, for which her former professor flew out to the desert to present his work alongside that of Carroll Dunham, Sigmar Polke, Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.)

After college Dorn came to New York to live with her sister in SoHo, with vague intentions to make it as a painter. She knew few people in town, and although she bagged herself a day job at the Whitney she felt that the city wasn’t for her. A studio in Tribeca gave her space to work and think, but after September 11, 2001, downtown New York suddenly seemed like a much less peaceful place. “9/11 was what actually

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changed my direction. I don’t know whether I had an early crisis, at 25 or 26, but I started questioning my life. This wasn’t a way to live, I thought. Everyone was so frightened, and I just wanted to get away.”

So Dorn left New York: not for one of the larger Texas cities, but for a speck on the map even smaller and more remote than one-horse Marfa. The ghost town of Terlingua, Texas— not even a town, actually, but merely a “censusdesignated place” with a population of 58—lies just a few miles from Big Bend National Park, and not much farther from the Rio Grande river that forms the border between the United States and Mexico. Abandoned stone houses lie amid scrub brush and exposed earth. The air is choked with dust, and the sun beats down mercilessly. “You’re on the edge of the world. For some people it looks like a bomb went off, but for others”—and Dorn counts herself among them—“it’s the most beautiful place in the world.” She’d been to Terlingua before in her childhood, but this was no homecoming. This was an escape, and the first step in her West Texas artistic reawakening.

She painted, hiked through the parks, readjusted her internal clock to the much slower rhythms of the desert. It was a reclusive time, though she had company: her friend Virginia Lebermann had also made the Texas-to-NewYork-to-Texas round trip, and was living in Terlingua part-time. “We would always say, wouldn’t it be amazing to bring artists into the desert? To present films on the side of the canyons? Wouldn’t that be amazing? We were so removed from everything, we thought we had to bring the artists to us.” One day in 2002, Dorn and Lebermann made the two-hour drive to relatively populous Marfa in a busted Chevy (“I wanted a pickup truck, but I had a Suburban”), where the Lannan Foundation had just begun a residency program for writers, and at a reading she and a few dozen other listeners set rapt in the shadow of the Chihuahua Mountains. And something clicked: this small town, so long associated with a single artist, had room for new art, and new institutions.

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orn had first made the pilgrimage to Marfa in 1999, and like everyone who visits, she came away with a transformed understanding of the art of Donald Judd. The foremost of American minimalist sculptors, Judd rethought what a work of art could be by using industrial materials such as steel, aluminum and concrete, often produced with manufacturing methods and displayed on the floor. For Judd, the

experience of an artwork in a specific site was as important as the artwork itself, and in the early 1970s he began acquiring land and property in West Texas with a view to displaying art in perpetuity. The Chinati Foundation, which opened in 1986, shows Judd’s art alongside that of Dan Flavin, John Chamberlain, Carl Andre and Roni Horn in placidly renovated army barracks and artillery sheds. (Dorn has gone on to join the board of the Judd Foundation, while Lebermann joined Chinati’s council.)

For decades after, Marfa was synonymous with Judd: an off-the-grid temple to minimalism that offered perfect viewing conditions, but that didn’t change over time. By the turn of the millennium, though, little Marfa was becoming big news. The opening of Dia:Beacon, in New York’s Dutchess County, had electrified interest

“YOU’RE ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. FOR SOME PEOPLE IT LOOKS LIKE A BOMB WENT OFF, BUT FOR OTHERS, IT’S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE IN THE WORLD.” —FAIRFAX DORN in Judd and his fellow experimenters of the late 1960s, and Marfa was attracting a new generation of Americans looking to escape from the big city. Tim and Lynn Crowley, Marfa muckety-mucks who had opened the excellent Marfa Book Company, were looking to sell their house, and for Dorn it was love at first sight.

And the very same week, Lebermann saw a for sale sign on a building next to a gas station: a crumbling old dance hall, built in 1927, going cheap. “Real estate is destiny,” Dorn avers.

Over a long weekend, the two young women conceived a mission and a model for Ballroom Marfa: a nonprofit institution devoted not only to contemporary art, but also to music, film and all other aspects of our culture. (The New York dealer Alexander Gray became an informal consultant, and organized one of their early shows.) They ran Ballroom Marfa on a shoestring, with a budget of little more than $100,000, with a little seed money from Lebermann’s family to keep the doors open and get a few exhibitions off the ground. María José Arjona, a Colombian performance artist, presented Ballroom’s first show—scrawling across the walls and the floor with charcoal— before they even had a lock on the door.

“We had no registrar, no shipping team, no PR.

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We would just get people in Marfa that we knew to handle artworks, or call people in from Austin. We just dove in— and I don’t know how we did it, to be honest.”

“As we were renovating the ballroom, Virginia and I were sitting at the Pizza Foundation. We were brainstorming, and one of us blurted out that maybe we should open a tapas bar. Someone must have been eavesdropping— you know, small town—and they must have heard us say topless bar. They got so upset! They thought we were a bunch of drug-addict lesbians turning the ballroom into a strip club, and they called the local newspaper!”

Happily, the Big Bend Sentinel is a responsible journalistic institution; they got the story straight.

What Ballroom brought to Marfa was not only a new place to see art. Ballroom brought a new energy to the small Texas town, and showed that Marfa was not only a temple to the late Donald Judd but a vital, experimental site for new artistic creation. In 2005, in collaboration with New York’s Art Production Fund, Ballroom invited the artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset to Marfa, where the impish Norwegian-Danish duo envisioned an ingenious commentary on the congruence of art, fashion and gentrification. Prada Marfa, Elmgreen & Dragset’s sly masterpiece off US Highway 90, is a counterfeit luxury emporium, with the same pistachio paint job as Miuccia’s many boutiques, where the door is always locked and dust gathers on the floor. (It’s a biting joke, too, about how the fashion world has glommed on to traditions of minimal sculpture: Prada Marfa’s squat concrete box riffs on Judd’s giant cubes in the West Texas sagebrush.) Less than a week after the work was unveiled, vandals tagged the side of Prada Marfa with the graffito “Dumb,” and stole half a dozen handbags.

“It’s only about fifteen feet wide, but in that landscape it appears monumental. It’s now one of the most viewed works of public art in Texas. Every truck driver who heads down the highway would stop, look at it, wonder what it is. So many people thought it was a real Prada store, and it takes a while to figure out that it’s a public sculpture.

People have shot at it, covered it in graffiti: it’s taken a hit over the past decade. They either love it or they hate it.”

Among those who love it: Beyoncé Knowles herself, who trekked from her native Houston to the desert to visit the ersatz Prada boutique, and duly Instagrammed it.

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allroom Marfa has gone on to present the art of such acclaimed artists as Rashid Johnson, Antony Gormley and Matthew Day Jackson, alongside a slew of younger figures seduced by the Texan landscape and its possibilities. It’s not only artists who are attracted to this tiny town, Allison Sarofim, Philip Graf zu Solms, Anne-Cecilie Speyer and Abdullah

Vintage Geoffrey Beene dress, rings and hat, all Fairfax’s own.

Arturo Bandini’s Vapegoat Rising, 2016 After Effect opening reception Courtesy the artist and Ballroom Marfa Photo © Luis Nieto Dickens

IN THE THIRTEEN YEARS SINCE ITS FOUNDATION, BALLROOM MARFA HAS NOT ONLY BROUGHT CONTEMPORARY ART OF INTERNATIONAL SCOPE TO RURAL TEXAS; IT’S ALSO CREATED EXHIBITIONS AND PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS THAT HAVE RICOCHETED OUT OF THE DESERT AND ACROSS THE WORLD.

Prada Marfa, 2005, by artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset.

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Al-Turki are just a few of the names on a very lofty list of patrons. Admission is free, and pulls more than 10,000 visitors a year to a town with a population a fraction of that size. Museum groups, national and international, come often now, and much younger artists are spending

time in Marfa instead of heading straight to New York or Los Angeles. They’ve also begun an impressive talks program, Marfa Dialogues, which brings together artists with journalists, scientists and political thinkers to discuss the environment, civic engagement and crossborder issues. That talks program has given Ballroom a means to transcend its hometown, and to pop up in Houston, St. Louis, and even New York. In March, Dorn invited Andres Santo Domingo’s record label, Mexican Summer, and created a curated weekend of music and art called Marfa Myths. It’s just another way that Dorn is thinking of creatively of spreading Ballroom’s mission.

For New York is Dorn’s home once again: the woman who once escaped to a ghost town with 58 inhabitants has returned to the city of eight million. She lives in Gramercy with her husband, Marc Glimcher, president of Pace Gallery. (The pair had “an abbreviated version”

of a Vedic wedding, officiated by the couple’s meditation teacher on Dorn’s family’s ranch.)

She has handed on day-to-day responsibilities for Ballroom Marfa to Susan Sutton, a sharp young curator most recently at the sublime Menil Collection in Houston. Dorn is now artistic director, planning Ballroom’s longterm programming and helping to shore up the finances of an art space that is definitely no longer a shoestring operation. Ballroom Marfa raised $600,000 at its first New York gala, and has plans for a major event this October, probably to be held at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, with a certain film director the honoree.

“I had to remain connected to New York while I was in Marfa,” she says. “A lot of our board is from New York City. What I miss the most is the horizon: seeing that horizon every day. The peacefulness. The light.” These days she heads back to West Texas every six weeks or so. Yet even in the big city, Fairfax Dorn is never fully away from the small town in the desert that Donald Judd put on the map, and which she reenergized and reoriented. “Judd created this connection between New York

and Marfa a long time ago,” Dorn explains.

“We have this magnetic synergy between the two places, and I think we can be that outside, alternative place for a major city. Marfa is the absolute opposite of New York City. There may be limited places to eat, limited places to sleep, but the quality is extraordinary, and you don’t lower your ambitions.” ✦

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CURATOR’S CURATOR Neville Wakefield goes up against the art market

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eville Wakefield is jet-lagged and sick when I meet him one afternoon last March at Red Bull Studios—a massive alternative art space in Chelsea sponsored by the energy drink, where Wakefield is curating the spring season. He’s just arrived in New York from Gstaad, the ski resort in Switzerland that caters to the ultra-wealthy. (Regular visitors have included Madonna, William F. Buckley Jr. and Prince Charles.) Wakefield, an art writer and curator, was not in Switzerland to navigate the slopes, however, but to begin planning an exhibition.

“It’s a strange place,” he says. “It’s this strange microcosm. All of Switzerland’s a weird microcosm, but Gstaad is a global village in a global village in”—he paused—“something else. You know, it has this huge confluence of wealth and affluence, and there are actually collectors who go there. So it’s a strange study in contrasts, because it’s actually still a little alpine village with farmers and cow shit and all the rest of it. And what was interesting was there’s this concentration of art there, but it’s all behind closed doors.” Wakefield’s show there, which will include 25 Swiss artists asked to create work responding to this environment, was to “do something that was available to the public.”

Wakefield, 53, is perhaps most recognized outside the art world for his appearances in various tabloids, being photographed alongside the artist and model Olympia Scarry, or with his current partner, actress Minnie Driver, whose public display of affection for Wakefield was the stuff of much gossip fodder last winter.

But art dealers, museum directors and artists know Wakefield best as a kind of outsider’s curator par excellence.

He has been an adviser for the Museum of Modern Art’s sister branch in Queens, MoMA PS1 and has done projects for the venerable Frieze art fair in London, as well putting together shows for revered galleries like Barbara Gladstone and Mary Boone. He’s written for Artforum and done catalogue essays about Ed Ruscha. He counts some of the most famous artists in the world—Matthew Barney, Christian Marclay, Christopher Wool—among his friends. But more and more lately, Wakefield has slid outside the mainstream, finding new ways of bringing art to the public as the art world becomes increasingly guided by money. However, his interests have remained more or less stable: “I’m drawn to work I don’t understand. I think if I don’t get it, it’s probably the sign of something good.”

Wakefield’s role has also changed dramatically in the last five years because of the expanded market for contemporary art. He cites the example of artist Dan Colen, an artist who was mostly unknown as recently as 2010, whose work sold at the time in the low five figures. He became something of an overnight sensation with the help of a few high-profile collectors, and was soon exhibiting at Gagosian, the most powerful gallery in the world. Colen’s work now sells in the millions. In an art market that mints a new celebrity artist about once a month, Colen’s story is not atypical. groomed by Lisa-Raquel @ SEE Management using R&Co

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“Fundamentally,” Wakefield says, “the market has become the curator. And I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, because it’s forced curating to kind of reinvent itself, and to take to spaces that either have an overt commercial connection—something like Red Bull—or take to spaces that are completely outside the market. But, yeah, the old idea of a curator as an arbiter of taste, that’s been superseded by the market.”

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nd so Wakefield has slowly moved out of galleries and museums and into increasingly unpredictable forums.

Besides an exhibition space fronted by an energy drink company and the mountains of Gstaad, there’s also the Coachella Valley, where Wakefield will stage a large-scale exhibition running from Palm Springs to the Salton Sea. The Gstaad show and the one in Coachella will both open in February of 2017. “It’s either flatness or peaks,” he says, adding. “I would rather encounter my art as I step back into cow dung or something.”

ideas about the tenuous nature of authorship and representation that theoretical writers like Roland Barthes and Jean Baudrillard had explored in their writing.

In 1992, he moved to New York, basically on a whim, with the stylist Camilla Nickerson, with whom he has two children. Nickerson got a job with Vogue, Wakefield says, “and I doggishly followed her.”

With no real prospects, he started writing about art: “It seemed like something you could do without a green card. And you got paid so badly, no one cared.”

In this way, he became friends with some of the most enduring artists of the 1990s—Matthew Barney, who was revolutionizing video art with his series called the Cremaster Cycle, and Richard Prince, a conceptual photographer who would appropriate the work of others in images that were like mini-essays on the artist’s authority. It was not long before Mary Boone, the legendary art dealer who made SoHo into a destination in the ’80s, asked him to curate a show at her gallery.

“For whatever reason, she took the leap of faith that somehow there’d

THE WORD “CURATOR” IS NOW UBIQUITOUS ENOUGH TO HAVE BEEN RENDERED MEANINGLESS, BUT IT WAS WAKEFIELD WHO HELPED PUT THE TERM ON THE POP CULTURE RADAR. Wakefield is no stranger to unusual environments. He grew up on the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago 50 miles off the southwest tip of England. “Oh God. My childhood is so humiliating,” he says when pressed on this. The island where he spent his childhood had a population of about 1,200, and everyone knew each other. His grandmother bought a house there in the late 1920s, and Wakefield’s mother and father went there to essentially retreat from society, not that long after the end of World War II. He described his parents as “proto-hippies.” His father was an archaeologist of some note—he was offered a job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, but around that time he developed an interest in making pottery, through his study of Greek culture. Faced with a professional life in Manhattan, or moving to a remote island to become an artisanal potter, “he chose the latter,” Wakefield says with a laugh.

Wakefield left at 16 for boarding school, and went on to study philosophy at the Royal College of Art in London. He came close enough to earning a PhD that his dissertation was published, in 1990, as a book, albeit by a nonacademic press. It was called Postmodernism: The Twilight of the Real. “I thought for some reason that would get me the degree,” Wakefield says, “but it didn’t.” Part of the problem was he never submitted the dissertation to his adviser.

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hough his book received little fanfare, it had a lasting impact because it was through Wakefield’s formal study of philosophy that he became interested in visual art.

His education coincided with the late ’80s after all, the peak in popularity of the so-called Pictures Generation, artists who came of age in the 1970s and whose work navigated the same

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be a translation between writing and curating,” Wakefield says. “I think there is. I think curating is writing by other means.” He adds, with characteristic self-effacement, “I think it’s a lot easier, as well.”

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his set Wakefield on a path in which he would become a kind of figurehead for what a contemporary curator is today: not simply an organizer of exhibitions, but a kind of cultural ambassador for brands and institutions, leapfrogging from erudite explorations of, say, the Museum of Modern Art’s collection to collaborations with fashion designers like Adam Kimmel to commissioning original art for skateboards made by Supreme. The word “curator” is now ubiquitous enough to have been rendered meaningless, but it was Wakefield who helped put the term on the pop culture radar. “I still have a hard time thinking of myself as a curator,” he says. “It’s a difficult term. Everyone’s a curator now.

People are curating their sock drawers.”

I ask him about a slightly more traditional platform, Greater New York, the survey of emerging artists held every five years at MoMA PS1. Wakefield helped organize the first Greater New York back in 2010, and I wondered what else he thinks has changed between then and the show’s most recent iteration, which opened in 2015 and was on view until March.

“Being an artist has become vocational,” Wakefield says. “You really can make a career and make money out of it. I’m of a generation that I wasn’t aware that was the case. I don’t know—maybe it’s a generational thing. As a kid, I probably wanted to be what every other kid wanted to be: a rock star, or a film star. My kids, who are now teenagers, want to be artists.” ✦

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HAYFA ABDULLAH: Field of Dreams

Artist’s First New York Solo Show Captures Intimate Side of Royal Upbringing

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ven though H.R.H Princess Hayfa Abdullah Al Saud has just flown in 13 hours, she’s full of energy as she talks about her commitment to her art, her passion for the Surrealists and her late father, Custodian of The Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Saud. In town to promote her first New York solo show, at the Stellan Holm Gallery from April 21 to May 27, Hayfa is happy to chat about her thoroughly modern artistic journey.

Hayfa was introduced to the world of painting in 2000 by Mona Al-Qasabi, a well-regarded Saudi artist.

After meeting Mona, Hayfa decided she wanted to pursue art as a career, but knew it would be impossible for her to go to art school in the United States. However, when another artist friend surprised her with the registration form for the online program at the San Francisco Academy of Art University in 2015, Hayfa signed up immediately. It was a like a door had been opened for her.

Hayfa obtained her degree in fine arts with a focus on Surrealism without ever once setting foot on the campus. She submitted online weekly artwork to her teachers and, like most art students, found the experience challenging but ultimately rewarding.

“I was a good student,” she says. “I’m not a nerd in real life, but I am in the art world. They were tough on me and I’m glad for it. I can see the difference in my work from Module 1 to Module 15. It’s like they were teaching different people. They push you hard and harder, but at the end you had amazing results.”

Hayfa is lucky; she has a Lean-In husband, H.R.H Prince Abdulaziz Nawaf Al Saud, who was completely supportive of her decision to get a degree. Married since 2002, the couple has three children together— H.R.H. Prince Nawaf 9, H.R.H Prince Abdullah 6 and H.R.H Princess Noura 3—and they live in the second largest city in Saudi Arabia, Jeddah. A coastal place with a laid-back atmosphere, it is a well-known Islamic tourist destination and, according to Hayfa, “has the best light.”

Abdulaziz and she are first cousins, a fact which Hayfa says Americans completely “don’t get,” but is pretty standard in Saudi Arabia. Having attended the same kindergarten, they met again as creative direction by Emily

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adults in 2002 in Paris, and were later married in a small (for Saudi standards) wedding of 200–300 people, where the bride wore Dior.

It was Abdulaziz who encouraged her to find a teacher in Saudi and eventually to pursue her academic qualifications. A tall, reserved man who was educated in the U.S. and is the son of the former Saudi head of intelligence, he is clearly proud of his wife’s achievements. He looks admiringly over all the pictures from the photo shoot and occasionally speaks up in the interview to add to a story or embellish a detail, never interrupting the flow of his wife’s thoughts. They seem truly connected and her liveliness bounces off his reserve in a nice way.

Hayfa is a strong, vibrant person—much like her paintings. When you look at her work, it is easy to see why she is so influenced by artists like Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dalí. One of the most powerful works in the show is Spray, which was painted after her father’s death. It depicts a blue-haired woman coming out of a spray bottle, screaming.

Hayfa says she painted it because after her father’s death she wanted to express the emotion bottled up inside her.

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t would be difficult to overstate the influence Hayfa’s father had on her life. She clearly idolized him and tells me over and over again what a strong supporter he was of women and women’s rights.

(By contrast, her mother doesn’t come up at all in our interview, a fact I subscribe less to her lack of significance in her daughter’s upbringing and more to the overarching importance of Hayfa’s father). But even more than hearing her thoughts on his political leanings, it’s much easier to get a sense of the man when she talks about the way he raised his children (who numbered 36 in total, 16 boys and 20 girls. Hayfa is his 15th eldest daughter.) .

“He didn’t spoil us with gifts. He wanted us to be independent, but was sweet and always wanted us to work harder.”

She tells a story indicative of a man who believed in imparting good values. When she was 10 or 11, she was once rude to the palace phone operator, within her father’s earshot. Her father overheard the tone of her voice, and after the call was finished said to her, “Do you think this is your home? These people are working for me and you may never,

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ever talk to them badly. They worked hard to get their jobs and you are not going to be rude to them.”

He made her call the operator back and apologize. Young Hayfa was in a state of shock: her beloved father had never spoken so harshly to her. To this day, the lesson has stayed with her, and Hayfa has been determined to bring her children up to treat other people well.

When I tell her it’s a little hard to believe that the king was such a hands-on father with 36 children, Hayfa assures me this is not the case.

“He was amazing. He made time to manage the government, he made time for his children and he was always fair. Once, one of my half-brothers had to have his tonsils out and was frightened of the surgery. My father told him that if he went through with it that my brother would receive a gift. Well, the day after the operation he not only gave a gift to my brother, he gave all of us in the same generation a present too.”

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uch as she reveres her father, Hayfa doesn’t believe that her artistic talent necessarily comes from him; she believes it came from her older sister Noura, an artist, who tragically died in a car accident when Hayfa was 6 or 7. Hayfa adored the newly wed Noura and used to visit her every Wednesday after school. One day, Hayfa noticed a large painting in the living room, half woman, half lion, and was dumbstruck by it. She was mesmerized by the fantasy and imagination with which her sister had painted the picture. Sadly, after Noura’s untimely death, Hayfa’s family never 72 | AVENUE MAGAZINE • MAY 2016

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wanted to speak about Noura, even many years later. Nonetheless, as Hayfa says, “From that moment on, I wanted to be an artist. And then I just fell in love with a mixture of colors.”

While the interplay of color was what initially drew Hayfa to the Surrealists, it was the fusion of dreams and reality and how the artists played with them that keeps her fascinated. She loves the wild ideas: “It’s unreal to have a boy born out of an egg,” she says, “but I love the conflict of real and unreal.”

As she sees it, her work is a conversation between herself and her imagination. “I don’t want to tell you what I meant by this painting because, to me, it’s like I’m putting the painting in a cage. Whenever you’re going to see it, you’re going to see it through your own eye, not through mine.”

Hayfa loves to work on her craft, but when the day is finished, she’s happy to set her paints aside, and not talk about brushstrokes into the night. She doesn’t mingle much with other artists at home, which Hayfa puts down to her shyness, but she hints that it’s hard to go to galleries because of who she is. Hayfa also seems to prefer the company of her family, she is plainly crazy about her children and Abdulaziz.

Not that her time as a wife and mother takes away from her dedication to her métier: she’s in her studio every day. She seems pretty disciplined about her schedule. Five days a week, after she’s helped

HAYFA IS A STRONG, VIBRANT PERSON—MUCH LIKE HER PAINTINGS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT HER WORK, IT IS EASY TO SEE WHY SHE IS SO INFLUENCED BY ARTISTS LIKE FRIDA KAHLO AND SALVADOR DALÍ. get her children ready for school, she works. When they come home, she either goes with them to sports practice or she’ll do errands until Abdulaziz arrives back from his day. In the evening they’ll see friends and family or put on an episode of Sex in the City, one of her favorite TV series. She is a die-hard fan, to the extent she took the Sex in the City tour when she and Abdulaziz came to New York on their honeymoon in 2005.

Having had a very fixed idea of what the city would be like from the show, she was terrified that the New York of her dreams might fall short of expectations.

Fortunately, Hayfa found New York far from disappointing: she and Aziz had a marvelous time zipping around the city in taxis (“I love yellow cabs,” she declares, “I feel like I’m in a movie.”), staying at the Four Seasons, going to Broadway shows and trying restaurants galore.

The one aspect of the trip that cast a bit of a pall over their happy time was the specter of 9/11 looming in the background.

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he couple worried about the kind of reception they might receive when they told New Yorkers where they were from. “I kept wondering if we should apologize or say we were from a different place, but Abdulaziz said, ‘No, we’re Saudi and we are going to tell everyone we’re Saudi.’ What happened to the Americans is what happened to us years and years ago. The terrorists have been killing Muslims, killing their brothers and their families. They aren’t stable people. They have hijacked our

religion and we hate them for that. They damaged our country before spreading violence to the rest of the world.”

After all their trepidation about how New Yorkers would react to meeting Saudi Arabians, New Yorkers received the news in much the same way they react to anyone from out of town: with a shrug of polite indifference.

As our conversation draws to a close, the last thing to talk about is that the net proceeds from the sale of her pictures will go to the Child Mind Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders. When one of their children was diagnosed with ADHD, the Child Mind Institute was instrumental in helping them, and they want to give back.

As Hayfa and Abdulaziz get ready for their dinner, she changes into her New York street clothes: heels, tan trousers and a loose blouse. As they go, they could be any other couple in town for a weekend away. ✦

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400PAS.com 212.981.8542 The complete terms are in an Offering Plan available from the Sponsor. File No. CD13-0283. Sponsor: Toll Park Avenue South, L.L.C. 75 Broad Street, Suite 2100 New York, NY 10004

C LA SSIC SUTTO N PLACE Embracing the timeless elegance of one of New York’s most storied neighborhoods, the Sutton offers gracious modern residences inspired by the impeccable detailing and traditional craftsmanship of a bygone era. The Sutton’s 90 residences feature an unparalleled world of rich, modern finishes and handcrafted, artisanal detailing. Priced from $1,700,000.

TheSuttonNYC.com 212.388.9194 The complete terms are in an Offering Plan available from the Sponsor. File No. CD14-0253. Sponsor: Toll First Avenue, L.L.C. 75 Broad Street, Suite 2100 New York, NY 10004

GRA ND C A RNEGIE H ILL Each of the nine residences at 1110 Park Avenue is crafted to be a home of distinction. Thoughtfully designed full-floor residences, duplexes and triplexes boast only the finest finishes and architectural details. 1110 Park Avenue provides keyed elevator access to each residence, soaring 10- to 14-foot ceilings, fumed oak floors, custom millwork details, and en suite baths in every bedroom. Priced from $8,325,000.

1110ParkAve.com 212.576.1030 The complete terms are in an Offering Plan available from the Sponsor. File No. CD-140010. Sponsor: 89 Park Avenue, L.L.C. 75 Broad Street, Suite 2100 New York, NY 10004

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A Gem of a Spa S OUT HAM P TO N V I L L AG E B E AU T Y Renowned and premiere builders, Rosewood Developers, are known for their superior quality construction and a balance between the importance of the visual aesthetics of a home and the sturdy bones behind its walls.

Their latest Southampton Village project is no exception. The main residence is 8000 +/- square feet with 7 bedrooms and 7.5 baths and offers a spacious open floor plan that merges seamlessly for casual or formal entertaining. Walls of glass in the gathering rooms open effortlessly to a beautifully landscaped .73 of an acre with bluestone patios, landscape lighting, pool house, gunite pool with tanning ledge & spa. A chef’s kitchen with custom cabinetry and professional appliances flows directly into the living room and great room with coffered ceilings and a double-sided fireplace. The dining room with wet bar and coffered ceilings flows into a den or junior master suite. The grand paneled two-story foyer leads up to a gracious staircase to the second floor landing. The Master Suite offers cathedral ceilings, fireplace, spacious bathroom with radiant heat and large deck overlooking the private property. There are 3 additional guest bedrooms all with en suite baths.

The lower level is equally as grand with 2400’ square feet of luxury and amenities with 11 Foot ceilings, theater, wine cellar, gym, recreational area, sauna and 2 additional bedrooms and baths. Here the luxury and excellenceof new construction meet the legacy and tradition of the Hamptons; all this is just minutes to shopping, dining, and world renowned beaches. Certain to surpass your every expectation, this is what it means to be in the Hamptons.

Co-Exclusive. $5.395M WEB# 31812

THE CORCORAN GROUP

AVENUE speaks with Janet League-Katzin, founder and director of the luxurious Upper East Side spa Sphatika and the Sphatika Skincare Line

How did your personal journey to wellness inspire you to create Sphatika? During a decade-long quest for wellness, I realized how much of an effect lifestyle, environment, pollution and lack of awareness can have on the system. This inspired me to share this knowledge about holistic treatments which incorporate modalities that would allow the body to turn on its own natural healing mechanism.

Holistic healing is a core part of Sphatika. What makes the spa services you offer unique? The unique combination of profound restful sleep treatments, pure 100 percent natural botanical skin products, imbues with Elixir of Quartz Crystal®, and specifically composed healing music, offered in a luxuriously exquisite and eco-logically safe environment.

What are the most popular products from the Sphatika Skincare line? All of our 16 products are truly amazing, and I’m honored to have won Fashion Group International’s Rising Star Award for them. From the Bulgarian Rose Oil to the Vitamin A Night Crème & Pearl Serum each item is enhanced with Elixir of Quartz Crystal® and is rich with nature’s own nourishing antioxidants, oxygenating ingredients and uplifting essential oils.

The products are pure, easy to use for all skin types and conditions for beautiful radiant skin.

What do you hope visitors would take away upon their visit to Sphatika? Our clients leave looking refreshed and renewed, and they tell us they feel years younger. I genuinely want every visitor to receive the full benefits of a holistic approach to wellness, and to achieve restoration and detoxification throughout the process! ✦

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AVENUE speaks with Natasha Cornstein, President of Blushington, about how this makeup and beauty lounge is redefining everyday glamour How did Blushington come about? Four years ago, our founder, Stephi Maron, had family in town for an event, and after they all had their hair done at the first Drybar in Brentwood, California, she realized that there was nowhere she could recommend sending them to have their makeup done. The light bulb went off, and shortly thereafter Blushington was created. We now have five locations in California and Texas and at the Parker Meridien Hotel in midtown Manhattan, with a sixth opening this summer on the Upper East Side.

We believe that every woman should have access to professional makeup artists, not just for special occasions but for feeling beautiful anytime that she desires.

What are some beauty product trends you are seeing now? We are seeing a huge interest in contouring and highlighting products and in lash and brow products and services. We have clients across all of our locations who have standing appointments for brow maintenance, lash extensions and lash fills along with their makeup services. The beauty of Blushington is that you can come to our stores or we can come to your home, office or anywhere you may need us with our Blush On The Go services. Our artists are trained and certified by Blushington, and our kits are immaculate and identical. Whether you are in LA, NYC or Dallas, you will be assured a consistent and outstanding experience.

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What is your most requested look? Our most requested makeup looks are Simply Glowing and Pure and Natural. Lash extensions, faux lashes and brow maintenance are also very popular.

Can you tell us about the products offered at Blushington? We are passionate about offering our clients the best of the best curated products. We hand pick selections from national brands including Stila, Kevyn Aucoin and Laura Geller and allow women a chance to discover niche, cult lines such as Girlactik, Julie Hewett and Jouer. Blushington elevates the makeup shopping experience by working one one one with clients to pick just the right products for their best look.

Where do you look for inspiration? Everywhere.

We are all very visual and stay up to date on fashion and beauty through reading, social media and also through our customers. It is often conversations with our customers that inspire us the most.

What are the beauty trends you see between the different locations? Beauty trends are constantly evolving. Our artists are trained to provide every type of look from the most simple and natural to super glam. Generally speaking, our California clients tend to like the dewy beach look, our Dallas

women love smoky eyes and bold lips, and so far in New York we have seen an emphasis on a more minimal aesthetic that focuses on radiant skin and gorgeous lashes and brows.

What is the one beauty product you cannot live without? Personally, I cannot live without my Stila illuminating foundation, Blushington B.Lovely matte nude lipstick and Kevyn Aucoin mascara. They are my everyday essentials. âœŚ

BLUSHINGTON For more information, memberships and appointments at any location, visit: blushington.com

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PENTHOUSE OASIS TriBeCa, NYC Exclusive | 2 BR, 2 BATH $5,650,000 | Web#12974835 Ivana Tagliamonte 212.381.6575 | Kyle Haas 212.521.5728

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INCOMPARABLE 12,000+SF MANSION Midtown East, NYC Exclusive | 10 BR, 11 BATH $34,000,000 | Web#14499250 Dan Danielli 212.381.3325

QUINTESSENTIAL PREWAR Upper East Side, NYC Exclusive | 3+ BR, 3 BATH $4,295,000 | Web#11815802 Sharon Fahy 212.381.3217

CENTRAL PARK SOUTH DREAM Midtown West, NYC Exclusive | 2 BR, 2.5 BATH $4,500,000 | Web#14441942 Fern Hammond 212.381.3270

INCREDIBLE VIEWS + TERRACE Midtown East, NYC Exclusive | 3+ BR, 4.5 BATH $2,495,000 | Web#14408801 Elayne Reimer 212.381.3372

HIGH FLOOR BLISS Upper East Side, NYC Exclusive | 2 BR, 2 BATH $2,250,000 | Web#14512035 Christopher Kromer 212.381.2334 | Nora Ariffin 212.381.2249

ONE-OF-A-KIND TOWNHOUSE Hoboken, NJ Exclusive | 3 BR, 2.5 BATH $2,500,000 | Web#14466207 Matt Brown 201.478.6709 | Peter Cossio 201.478.6710

ARTFUL LOFT LIVING SoHo, NYC Exclusive | 1 BR, 2 BATH $2,195,000 | Web#13286450 Brian Lewis 212.381.2252

IMMACULATE PREWAR Upper East Side, NYC Exclusive | 3 BR, 3 BATH $2,699,000 | Web#14396219 Kimberly Hastie 212.381.2240

Halstead Property, LLC; Halstead Property New Jersey, LLC We are pledged to the letter and spirit of U.S. policy for the achievement of equal housing opportunity throughout the Nation. We encourage and support an affirmative advertising and marketing program in which there are no barriers to obtaining housing because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin. All information is from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, prior sale or withdrawal without notice. No representation is made as to the accuracy of any description. All measurements and square footages are approximate and all information should be confirmed by customer. All rights to content, photographs and graphics reserved to Broker.

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ASK HALL F. WILLKIE

A question for one of the city’s top real estate experts . . .

1ST QUARTER 2016

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he average and median apartment prices reached record levels in the first quarter, aided by a large number of high-end new development closings, which one must remember are based on contracts that were signed in many cases 18 to 24 months ago when we were in a very different market. A record number of these new development closings topped the $10 million mark.

Their average price reached $3,608,322, which was 15 percent higher than a year ago.

Looking at just the resale market, the average apartment price fell a mere 1 percent from 2015’s first quarter to $1,542,348. The number of resale closings was 2 percent lower than the first quarter of 2015.

While concerns about equity markets, oil prices, and interest rates have impacted consumer confidence, Manhattan apartment prices have remained stable.

A slowdown at the high end of the resale market was expected, however the strength of the middle-to-lower end has been strong to the point of pushing the median resale price to a new record. ✦

“Looking at just the resale market, the average apartment price fell a mere 1 percent from 2015’s first quarter to $1,542,348. The number of resale closings was 2 percent lower than the first quarter of 2015.”

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MINT TOWNHOUSE OFF PARK AVE

Greenwich Village. 6BR. 8 BATH. $34.95M. WEB# 14395605.

Paula Del Nunzio 212-906-9207

15 Central Park West. 3BR. 3.5 BATH. $29.95M. WEB# 13091038.

Lauren Elizabeth Bankart 212-588-5698

E. 60’s/Park-Lex. 7BR. 6.5 BATH. $19.95M. WEB# 14575707.

John Burger 212-906-9274

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PH CONDO ON THE HUDSON/91ST

RARE 5BR CONDO ON E74TH

CPW/Columbus Ave. 6BR. 6 BATH. $18.995M. WEB# 14447334.

Wolf Jakubowski 212-588-5630

Upper West Side. 5BR. 5.5 BATH. $14.95M. WEB# 11626030.

Lisa K. Lippman 212-588-5606 Gerard S. Moore 212-588-5608

255 East 74th Street. 5BR. 3.5 BATH. $8.75M. WEB# 14518510.

Caroline E. Y. Guthrie 212-396-5858

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Minetta St & Ln. 5BR. 3 BATH. $6.5M. WEB# 14460127.

David E. Kornmeier 212-588-5642

West Village. 4BR. 3 BATH. $5.5M. WEB# 14348089.

M. Candace Roncone 212-906-0556

Fifth Avenue/70’s. 3BR. 3 BATH. $5.495M. WEB# 14354003.

Jean Adams 212-588-5667

Caroline G. Buck

Cathy A. Haft

Jeanette C. Colegrove

Mary L. Fitzgibbons

Richard Ziegelasch

Silvana Mander

Susan L. Raanan

Wolf Jakubowski

STUNNING 2BR AT LONDON TERRACE

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NEW MOMA 1BR CONDO VALUE

Chelsea. 2BR. 2 BATH. $3.995M. WEB# 14402335.

Drew Glick 212-396-5883 Juliana Frei 212-396-5886

Fifth Ave/71st. 2BR. 2.5 BATH. $3.495M. WEB# 14073121.

Ellen Sussman 212-317-7740 Florrie Milan 212-317-7728

Off 5th. 1BR. 1.5 BATH. $2.249M. WEB# 14505673.

Corinne Vitale 212-906-9249 Linda De Luca 212-906-9208

All information is from sources deemed reliable but is subject to errors, omissions, changes in price, prior sale or withdrawal without notice.

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Properties of the Month A selection of luxurious residences

Douglas Elliman PASTORAL GOLD COAST Greystone on Hudson is a collection of 21 individually designed 2-to-5-acre estates located just thirteen miles north of Manhattan in Irvington, New York. The private, gated enclave is situated on more than 100 acres, and each estate combines old-world craftsmanship with state-of-the-art technology. Starting from $5M. Contact Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes @ 212.727.6158.

Brown Harris Stevens HISTORIC NATHAN P. HOWELL HOUSE Modern amenities balance harmoniously with original 19th-century details within this 10,000± SF, 7-bedroom home, featuring 4 levels of living space.

This magnificent Sag Harbor Village property features 1.1± acre, pool and gardens. A third-floor loft with bathroom leads up a short staircase to the widow’s walk capturing a 360-degree view of the surrounding village.

A 4-bay, climate-controlled garage and an artist’s studio with full bath are the finishing touches of this luxurious estate. $19,750,000. WEB# 10049. Contact Richard James Demato @ 631.903.6180.

Norma Reynolds Sotheby’s International Realty UNRIVALED WATERFRONT ESTATE Le Serenite is a magnificent Westhampton Beach Village waterfront estate with water views from every room. It is a boating enthusiast’s haven . . . 150’ of deep-water bulkheading with boat lift for a 23’ wakeboarding boat, a dual jet ski dock and a second dock that can hold a 40’ boat. Lavish 7 bedrooms, 6.5 baths is for the discerning buyer who appreciates quality and fine architectural detail. The stunning house features Olympic 50’ saltwater pool, octagonal spa, full cabana bath, large gazebo with wet bar and Har-Tru tennis . . . for the true Hamptons experience. $5,495,000. WEB# 23543.

Contact Vicky Reynolds @ 631.834.3440.

Warburg Realty CHARMING TRIBECA TOWNHOME 150 Reade Street is a pristine, 6-story house boasting 7,500 SF. Recently renovated by SP WONG Architects, the breathtaking home features 5 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, an elevator, glass-railed staircases, ubiquitous Nublado marble stone flooring, a brace of terraces and a finished roof deck with beautiful views. Tucked away in a quiet Tribeca enclave between Greenwich and Hudson Streets, it is equipped with a smart-home Crestron system and a geothermal heating and cooling system for energy efficiency. $14,750,000. WEB# 100020639.

Contact Lisa Deslauriers and Linda Reiner @ 212.439.5182 / 212.439.4538.

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EXCEPTIONAL NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THE HAMPTONS

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE ELEGANCE

WINDMILL CROSSING • WATER MILL SOUTH

BRIDGEHAMPTON VILLAGE

7,100± sf l 7 Bedrooms l 8.5 Baths l Pool $7,650,000 l WEB# 51225 l MD-LD, $350,000

8 Bedrooms l 8.5 Baths l 1.1± acres l Pool $5,295,000 l WEB# 44605

Diane Sadowski l 631.204.2429 dsadowski@bhshamptons.com

Martha P. Gundersen l 631.903.6131 mgundersen@bhshamptons.com

Jane Babcook l 631.537.4346 jbabcook@bhshamptons.com

QUOGUE VILLAGE SOUTH

SAG HARBOR VILLAGE

HEART OF SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE

Albert Weinschenk l 631.288.5039 aspen@bhshamptons.com

Jane Babcook l 631.537.4346 jbabcook@bhshamptons.com

Diane Sadowski l 631.204.2429 dsadowski@bhshamptons.com

A NEW CLASSIC IN SAG HARBOR

INTRODUCING THE NEW QUOGUE MEWS

BRIDGEHAMPTON NEW ARCHITECTURE

William Crosby Renwick l 631.903.6124 crenwick@bhshamptons.com

Marcia Altman l 631.288.5004 maltman@bhshamptons.com

James W. Oxnam l 631.903.6111 joxnam@bhshamptons.com

5,156± sf l 7 Bedrooms l 5.5 Baths l Pool House $6,950,000 l WEB# 35842

6,000± sf l 6 Bedrooms l Pool With Guest House $5,395,000 l WEB# 24373

1.9± acres l 5,200± sf l 6 Bedrooms l Pool $2,695,000 l WEB# 49625

4 Bedrooms l 4.5 Baths l 2,700± sf l Pool House $3,995,000 l WEB# 22914

4,000± sf l 4 Bedrooms l Gunite Pool and Spa $3,350,000 l WEB# 42854

5,350± sf l 7 Bedrooms l 5.5 Baths l Pool House $6,950,000 l WEB# 27340

4,000± sf l 4 Bedrooms l 4.5 Baths l Pool House $2,650,000 l WEB# 22525

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Equal Housing Opportunity Broker. Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons, LLC. 27 Main Street • East Hampton, NY 11937 • 631.324.6400

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6th Anniversary Dinner of the Hunter College Writing Center

1. Jane Oppenheim, Dean Baquet, Dylan Landis and Lewis Frumkes 2. Bob and Barbara Taylor Bradford 3. Amber and Scott Daspin 4. Denise LeFrak 5. Mary and Ed Downe 6. Burt Manning 7. Iris Smyles and Frederic Tuten. 8. Elizabeth Strout and Jennifer Raab

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CUTTY MCGILL.

Lewis Frumkes and president Jennifer Raab cohosted the Hunter College Writing Center’s 6th Anniversary celebration honoring Elizabeth Strout. New York’s intellectual elite, including Dean Baquet and his wife, Dylan Landis, Bob and Barbara Taylor Bradford, the Hon. Robert Morgenthau, Carol Higgins Clark, Meg and Hilma Wolitzer, and others toasted Ms. Strout.

EXCEPTIONAL NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THE HAMPTONS

BRIDGEHAMPTON SOUTH

7,400± sf l 1.5± Acres l 6 Bedrooms l 9.5 Baths $5,995,000 l WEB# 46499 Francis G. Fineo l 631.204.2416 ffineo@bhshamptons.com John P. Vitello l 631.204.2407 jvitello@bhshamptons.com

MODERN BARN® • WATER MILL

7,000± sf l 7 Bedrooms l 6.5 Baths l Summer Kitchen $4,295,000 l WEB# 25656 José (JB) DosSantos l 631.903.6147 jdsantos@bhshamptons.com Mary Giaquinto l 631.903.6123 mgiaquinto@bhshamptons.com

SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE

4 Bedrooms l 4.5 Baths l Heated Saltwater Pool $2,950,000 l WEB# 17535 John P. Vitello l 631.204.2407 jvitello@bhshamptons.com

DAVIDS LANE • WATER MILL SOUTH

7,000± sf l 8 Bedrooms l 9 Full and 2 Half Baths $6,495,000 l WEB# 10695 Martha P. Gundersen l 631.903.6131 mgundersen@bhshamptons.com Francis G. Fineo l 631.204.2416 ffineo@bhshamptons.com

BLACKBARN2 IN SAG HARBOR

PONDFRONT ESTATE • BRIDGEHAMPTON 2.2± acres l 11,603± sf l Pool House l Tennis $10,995,000 l WEB# 25699 Christopher J. Burnside l 631.537.4320 cburnside@bhshamptons.com

AMAGANSETT ESTATE BY THE SEA

Mark Zeff Design l 2.4± acres l 8,000± sf l Pool $3,995,000 l WEB# 42518 Christopher J. Burnside l 631.537.4320 cburnside@bhshamptons.com Mark J. Baron l 631.537.4333 mbaron@bhshamptons.com

1.08± acre l 8,010± sf l Pool and Pool House $8,995,000 l WEB# 40548 Christopher J. Burnside l 631.537.4320 cburnside@bhshamptons.com Mark J. Baron l 631.537.4333 mbaron@bhshamptons.com

NEWEST MODERN BARN® • WATER MILL

EXCEPTIONAL IN SAG HARBOR

7,000± sf l 7 Bedrooms l 6.5 Baths l Summer Kitchen $3,995,000 l WEB# 15431 José (JB) DosSantos l 631.903.6147 jdsantos@bhshamptons.com Mary Giaquinto l 631.903.6123 mgiaquinto@bhshamptons.com

0.86± acre l 5,400± sf l 7 Bedrooms l 7.5 Baths $2,795,000 l WEB# 21686 Christopher J. Burnside l 631.537.4320 cburnside@bhshamptons.com Mark J. Baron l 631.537.4333 mbaron@bhshamptons.com

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REMEMBERING AN ICON Friends and family came to the Museum of Modern Art to honor the late Nora Ephron at the special screening of Everything Is Copy, a documentary about Ephron directed by her son Jacob Bernstein. Meg Ryan, Arianna Huffington, Graydon Carter, Gayle King, and more gathered to learn about a legend in this son’s candid portrait of his mother, who was beloved by many.

1. Christine Baranski 2. Tovah Feldshuh and Sheila Nevins 3. Alan Cumming 4. Gayle King 5. Zac Posen 6. Janet Mock 7. Jacob Bernstein and Carl Bernstein

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PAUL BRUINOOGE/PMC

Everything Is Copy New York Screening

EXCEPTIONAL NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THE HAMPTONS

MECOX FARM • WATER MILL SOUTH ESTATE

OCEANFRONT LIVING IN EAST QUOGUE

3± acres l 12,000± sf l Impeccably Furnished l 200± Yards from the Water $19,750,000 l WEB# 22729 l MD-LD, $695,000; August-LD, $375,000 Martha P. Gundersen l 631.903.6131 l mgundersen@bhshamptons.com

1.4± acres l 9,000± sf l 8 Bedrooms l Infinity Pool l Rooftop Deck $19,950,000 l WEB# 17851 Philip G. Grossman l 631.288.5003 l pgrossman@bhshamptons.com

TWO TREES COUNTRY ESTATE • BRIDGEHAMPTON 1.8± acres l 11,800± sf l Pool house l Tennis l Horse Farm Views $9,450,000 l WEB# 52310 Christopher J. Burnside l 631.537.4320 l cburnside@bhshamptons.com

MOMENTS TO THE OCEAN • SAGAPONACK SOUTH

1.24± acres l 8,000± sf l 8 Bedrooms l Heated Pool l Views over Reserve $12,995,000 l WEB# 24405 Christopher J. Burnside l 631.537.4320 l cburnside@bhshamptons.com Mark J. Baron l 631.537.4333 l mbaron@bhshamptons.com

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Equal Housing Opportunity Broker. Brown Harris Stevens of the Hamptons, LLC. 27 Main Street • East Hampton, NY 11937 • 631.324.6400

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SAG-AFTRA, the actors’ union, hosted a dinner party to celebrate Ghetto Film School’s mentoring program A Call to Arts and to honor award-winning director David O. Russell. The event attracted a diverse group of film world insiders like Helen Mirren, Chris Tucker, Allison Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Bob Balaban, who gathered at the newly launched 11 Howard for cocktails, dinner and conversation about lack of minority representation on the screen and the importance of mentorship to budding filmmakers.

1. Susan Crow, Tony Bennett and Whoopi Goldberg 2. Helen Mirren and Allison Williams 3. Christian Slater and Bob Balaban 4. Gabrielle Carteris and Debbie Harry 5. David O. Russell and Christopher Walken 6. Chris Tucker, Dascha Polanco and John Leguizamo 7. John Turturro 8. Parker Posey and Marlo Thomas

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INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS. L O C A L I N S IG HT S .

Sotheby’s International Realty and the Sotheby’s International Realty logo are registered (or unregistered) service marks used with permission. Operated by Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. Real estate agents affiliated with Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. are independent contractor sales associates and are not employees of Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. Equal Housing Opportunity.

1120 FIFTH AVENUE | $15,200,000 11 RM/5 BR/4.5 BA | WEB: 00110700 Lisa Maysonet, 212.606.7603 Gary Kabol, 212.606.7606

1 FIFTH AVENUE, 18A | $12,230,000 8 RM/4 BR/4 BA | WEB: 00110602 Stan Ponte, 212.606.4109

1141 PARK AVENUE | $12,000,000 5 BR/6.5 BA | WEB: 00110508 Serena Boardman, 212.606.7611

80 COLUMBUS CIRCLE, APT 64A | $10,950,000 4 RM/2 BR/2 BA | WEB: 00110364 Elizabeth L. Sample, 212.606.7685

820 PARK AVENUE | $9,500,000 8 RM/4 BR/4.5 BA | WEB: 00110665 Serena Boardman, 212.606.7611

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It seems that everything artist Donald Robertson touches turns not only into gold, but a bevy of bright, poppy colors. Known as “@Drawbertson” to his 172,000 Instagram followers, his feed is constantly updated with witty fashion-inspired doodles and paintings. Snapshots of his family and five kids also boast many “likes,” and his shot to social media stardom has led to collaborations with Bergdorf Goodman, Brian Atwood, Assouline and more. Oh, and did we mention Iris Apfel and Beyoncé are fans? Also the senior vice president of global creative development at Estée Lauder, Robertson has recently moved to L.A. after growing up in Toronto then living in New York for 25 years.

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You have to see the book that Dewey Nicks, Jeff Klein, Gabé Doppelt and I just finished for the Sunset Tower Hotel.

Totally inspiring.

A change of scene I recently moved my family to Los Angeles from NYC because I love the Sunset Tower Hotel so much. It inspired our leap to the sunny side of the country. It makes me feel like I’m Walt Disney in the 1930s (the guy, not the place) and that I’m working as an illustrator in old Hollywood. It’s like a time machine hotel. My wife and I went so far as to hire the guy who decorated it— Paul Fortune—to do our new house in Montecito.

A day in L.A.

First I would suggest hiking the hills behind the hotel because it’s the best cheap workout and Runyon Canyon Park is closed right now. Then go have lunch at Jon & Vinny’s. It’s a crazy perfect pizza parlor with epic food—CALI style. Then come back and sit by the Sunset Tower pool until dinner at the Tower Bar. When you’re there, hug Dimitri [Dimitrov, Hollywood’s most famous maître d’] for me. He’s friendly.

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Event Producer Mortimer Zuckerman was among the first to get an Michael Cerbelli autographed copy of Jean Shafiroff’s new book, Successful @ The Search Foundation, Philanthropy: How to Make a Life by What You Give at the tome’s which helps event planners launch party. Mort knows: he gave $200 million to Columbia in need University. Georgina Bloomberg,, whose father Michael Bloomberg’s bequests include $1.1 billion to Johns Hopkins University, wrote the book’s introduction, saying, “Don’t ever think that you can’t help make the world a better place just because you can’t write a check. If you see someone in need of something and you think you can help, go do it.” On whether Georgina was happy that her father has decided not to run for president, she told me, “As a family member, I’m relieved: campaigns are difficult, and horrible things are said about all the candidates,” adding “I haven’t decided who I’m going to vote for yet. I have been friends with Hillary and Donald for a long time and I love them both. That doesn’t mean I agree with all of their policies. I’ve learned how to separate my personal feelings from the politics.” Jean’s book is an inspirational and practical guide to giving. Representatives from the organizations Jean works with attended, including, Southampton Hospital’s Robert Chaloner and Steve Bernstein, NYC Mission Society’s Elsie McCabe Thompson and Stan Rumbough, FIT’s Valerie Steele, Couture Council’s Yaz Hernández, Margaret Thatcher Scholarship’s Scott Elkins, NY Women’s Foundation’s Ana Oliveira, the French Heritage Society’s Elizabeth Stribling and Southampton Animal Shelter’s Claire Del Villar.

Others in the mix were Liliana Cavendish, Geoffrey Bradfield, Maggie Norris, Steven Vornea, Alex Donner, Carl Kempner, Zang Toi, Kipton Cronkite, Dale Noelle, Leesa Rowland and Steven Sephaugh, Richard Rubenstein, Cassandra Seidenfeld, Beth Shak, Fox News correspondent Rick Leventhal, Victor de Souza and Martin Shafiroff.

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and Margo, who was a vision in green and sporting huge emeralds in all the key places, have been attending this event for several years. Fred’s other “hobby” is refurbishing historic houses. Margo has been a guest at Fred’s castles and residences around the world, including his villa Torre Clementina in the south of France, his Tudor mansion in Butler, Pennsylvania, and his spectacular Schloss Bluhnbach in Austria, where they enjoy going to the nearby Salzburg Festival. This pair also attended the opening of Les Pêcheurs de Perles and Il Trovatore at the Met this season. In 1990 Koch bought Sutton Place in England, the former residence of J. Paul Getty and the castle that King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn famously used for their romantic rendezvous some time before he lopped off her head so he could marry Jane Seymour in 1536. In London, Fred secretly paid for the reconstruction of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theater, which was built in 1879. In New York, Koch bought the Donahue House, a former Woolworth mansion.

Others at the SAB ball included NYC Ballet chairman Peter Martins and his wife, Darci Kistler, Fe and Alessandro Fendi, ABT board member Judith Hoffman, and Peter Walker, who choreographed the pièce d’occasion for the students. The black-tie ball was sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels and raised nearly $1.2 million. sab.org

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the Hôtel de Paris. When Albert heard that someone was trying to buy this old school spot and turn it into a chic restaurant he put his foot down: His Serene Highness likes pizza. The Grimaldi princes have also raised untold millions at their annual Croix Rouge Ball, held every August since 1948. On another night, supermodel Victoria Silvstedt joined Rémy Deslandes, the president of INCC Parfums, a fragrance company based in Versailles, France, to launch Monaco, a fragrance for men and women, at the CREM Club during a reception for the Princess Grace Foundation USA. Prince Rainier III of Monaco created this foundation to honor his wife Princess Grace’s legacy. They have awarded millions in grants to more than 800 emerging artists since its inception 34 years ago. Guests included award winners Antonia Berasaluce, an ABT ballerina, and Lucien Postlewaite from Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Thibaud de Vaulchier, Sandra van Essche, Toby Boshak, Christine and George Ledes and perfumer Calice Becker of Givaudan, who created Monaco Parfums. pgfusa.com

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Audrey Gruss hosted the 10th Anniversary Dinner for the Hope for Depression Research Foundation (HDRF), which she seeded with a generous gift in honor of her mother, Hope, at the Breakers in Palm Beach. The events co-chairs were William Flaherty, Susan Lloyd and interior designer Scott Snyder, who festooned the Gold Room in towering vases of forsythia. He draped the tables in yellow, the organization’s signature color, and dotted them with bowls of matching calla lilies. David Payne read from his best seller Barefoot to Avalon, a memoir about his brother’s struggle with bipolar disorder.

HDRF neuroscientists and psychiatrists sat at every table to explain the foundation’s progress to the guests. Luce Churchill, Mary and Marvin Davidson, Mai Hallingby Harrison, Eleanora Kennedy, Denis and Annabelle Coleman, Jackie Drake, Robert Nederlander and Susan Keenan were among the members of the Chairman’s Council in attendance. hopefordepression.org ✦

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hances are if you pay attention to cultural happenings around the city, you have seen one of the public art projects that Katie Hollander has overseen. One of them is Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, a highly publicized Sphinx-like piece, released in 2014, that many Manolo-clad Manhattanites trekked to Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory to see. Now this dynamic leader takes on a new role as Creative Times’ executive director, a nonprofit public arts organization. Her first project as director will be another event that is sure to make art crowds flock to Brooklyn: Duke Riley’s Fly By Night, which for six weeks in May will feature dozens of pigeons flying above the East River at dusk with LED lights, emerging from a converted historic boat.

I love having people over and preparing large, family-style meals. On New Year’s Eve, it was a full-course Moroccan lamb couscous feast, cooked in a tagine from Morocco given to me by a friend.

WHAT WAS YOUR EARLIEST NEW YORK MEMORY? Sitting on my stoop in Brooklyn. I grew up in Carroll Gardens and later moved to Park Slope. I spent a lot of time outside playing stoopball and hopscotch and jumping rope with my friends on the block.

WHAT’S YOUR PRESENT STATE OF MIND? I am excited about my new role as executive director of Creative Time. This spring, we’ll bring artist Duke Riley’s Fly By Night to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which will feature a massive flock of pigeons flying in elegant harmony above the East River at sunset in a transcendent union of public art and nature.

WHAT’S THE COOLEST THING IN YOUR HOME RIGHT NOW? My 9-year-old daughter reading Harry Potter to my 6-year-old son, cuddled up in bed.

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WHAT’S THE BEST ADVICE YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED? Trust your gut.

I’m a very rational person, so I tend to rely on facts to make decisions. Working at Creative Time, I’ve learned that you can’t always predict the future, and sometimes you just need to listen to your gut.

NAME A WORK OF ART (OR BOOK) THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE. There have been so many, but one of them was Key to the City. The project bestowed the key to New York City to everyday citizens in an all-day ceremony in the middle of Times Square. It questioned to whom the city belongs, and cemented in me that public art can have a real impact on our lives and our communities.

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE DINNER COMPANION? My husband.

WHAT’S YOUR SIGNATURE DRINK? Red wine in the winter, rosé in the summer.

WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? Challenges. Working at Creative Time is just one challenge after another, but that’s what makes it such an exciting dynamic place to be.

WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE NEW YORK DISCOVERIES? The incredible people I get to meet. Through our commissions I’ve had the opportunity to work with dedicated, diverse and inspiring New Yorkers.

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WHO IS THE MOST INTERESTING NEW YORKER YOU KNOW? All the amazing artists I get to work with that keep this city vibrant and continue to challenge the status quo.

WHAT THREE THINGS CAN YOU NOT LIVE WITHOUT? My laptop, my keys and my MetroCard.

WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT? I try not to let much keep me up at night.

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? A kid again. ✦

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Spectacular Cobb Road Compound Water Mill. Sequestered behind stone walls through a gated entry, a 12,000 SF+/-, 7 bedroom, 10 bath residence on three levels of living space, anchors a gated 2 acre compound with guest house in an estate setting. Completely transformed by James Michael Howard with exquisite new interiors throughout, grand spaces include an impressive two story great room with fireplace, formal dining room with wet bar, eat-in chef ’s kitchen professionally equipped with fireplace and an adjoining den with fireplace. The first floor master with fireplace is augmented by a sitting room, luxurious spa bath and two walk in closets. A staff suite and two powder rooms complete the first floor. Upstairs large decks overlooking the grounds are shared by a large guest master and 3 additional guest suites all with built in closets and individual climate controls. A fully finished 4,500 SF+/- lower level adds recreational areas and staff quarters while a heated and tiled 4 car garage holds all the toys. An elevator accesses all levels and a Crestron system controls major systems. Stone patios fan out to join the 50 ft. Gunite pool, spa, pool house, sunken court with fountain and basketball court and tiki wet bar. A 2 bedroom, 3 bath guest house offers its own Jacuzzi with nearby putting green. Security cameras, generator, 800 amp service and spectacular landscaping ensures the ultimate privacy and piece of mind. Spectacular in all respects, this estate deserves your attention today.

Exclusive. $14.995M WEB# 34350 | Available for Rent: MD - LD: $695K | July: $300K | August: $350K | Year: $800K

Southampton to Montauk...Sagaponack to Shelter Island The Hamptons for Buyers, Sellers, Renters & Investors

GARY R. DePERSIA Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker

m: 516.380.0538 | gdp@corcoran.com

A NEW TRADITION ON THE

U PPER E A ST S I DE

Introducing a tailored collection of two to ďŹ ve bedroom condominium residences

designed by Alexandra Champalimaud. A full-service lifestyle complemented

by three levels of curated indoor and outdoor services and amenities.

Priced from approximately $2.4 M.

Launching Spring 2016.

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