Miami, I love you but give me Park Avenue (at least during auction week)
Tony Japour attends 2011 Contemporary Auction Week in NYC
The May and November contemporary art auctions are traditionally the most important financial events for the major auction houses – and this year they are rolling in cash from smart investors pulling money out of a yo-yo stock market and real estate and investing in contemporary art.
My New York trip began at the plush new space of Philips de Pury auction house on Park Avenue and wended its way through Christie’s in Rockefeller Plaza, uptown to the Park Avenue Armory and ended at Maurizio Cattelan’s solo exhibition at Guggenheim Museum and a jewel of a show exhibiting René Magritte.
Pictured: René Magritte, Dangerous Liaisons
SOCIAL Manny: Episode 69
This week Manny shoots Nikki & Michael Simkins, Marcela & Daniel Novella, Christian Slater, Stella Holmes, Claudio Faria, Lana Bernstein and Bonnie Clearwater at MOCA Mystery Dates, Designer Carmen Marc Valvo at Sak’s Bal Habour, Frances Sevilla-Sacasa, Stephen Brunelle, Swanee DiMare, Yolanda Berkowitz, Lydia Touzet and Maria Beguiristain at the kick off luncheon for the Fairchild Gardens gala at Neiman Marcus, Merrick Park, Darlene & Jorge Perez, Laura Buccellati, Jessica Wade Pfeffer, Charles & Fanny Dascal, Bob Heuer, Placido Domingo, Tanya Capriles de Brillembourg, Manuel de la Torriente and Consulate Christina Barrios at the Florida Grand Opera dinner at the Arsht Center and more…
Pictured: Bonnie Clearwater and Zubin Nagpal at Moca Mystery Dates
Who Wore What to Where with Elysze Held
Gisela Lowenstein, Nicole Lozano, Randi Bell, Shayne Cohen, Designer Mary Katrantzou, Rachel Bonelli, Dr. Debora Dure, Christina Hogue, Nina Johnson, Lynn Martinez, Irene Korge and Karisa Knight.
Pictured: Karisa Knight in Roberto Cavalli dress, Chanel handbag & Jimmy Choo shoes
