Christie's International plc

Look At Me Looking At Pamela Lee! NSFW

I've never been so close to a woman's private parts than the other night, when Brian Christopher Cummings photographed me looking piqued by the above Sante D'Orazio grid of images of the sumptuous Pamela Lee. It was a reception and private viewing at Christie's for "The deLIGHTed Eye, Modernist Mas ... More >>

Charles Bradley: The Unstoppable, Untoppable Victim of Love

The truest part of a Charles Bradley performance doesn't happen onstage, where he falls to his knees, flings his arms from the microphone, blows kisses to the crowd, and pushes himself past the emotional brink, where words can't follow and a painful howling rises up instead. It's when he's off the s ... More >>

How Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art

Mark Zuckerberg Will Fundraise For (Facebook Friend) Chris Christie's Re-Election

It's good to have someone with over 17 million Facebook friends on your side, especially when it involves a political campaign. According to Buzzfeed, Mark Zuckerberg, the social network billionaire, will hold a fundraiser next month for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie out in Palo Alto, Californ ... More >>

Gov. Christie Stupidly Gets Flak For Praising Obama's Response to Sandy

Yesterday, we reported on the media's tendency to politicize this catastrophe into an electoral issue and how that is a terrible symptom of infinite media. And we continue to see this play out as the Eastern seaboard cleans itself up from some of the worst inflicted damage in recent history. The nex ... More >>

Meanwhile, in New Jersey, Everybody Is Mad at Chris Christie

Ah, New Jersey. The land where fake orange tans and affable, clueless Republicans come together to make magic. New Yorkers should consider themselves lucky to live so close to New Jersey, particularly right now. New Jersey governor Chris Christie, one-time potential Republican presidential candidat ... More >>

Say Goodbye to Christie's

It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Here are some of the dogs who got eaten this week. Know of any restaurants or bars opening or closing? Drop us a line. ​Christie's, a popular Park Slope meat patty stand, will close after 45 years of business. The eatery's owner has said that the landlord u ... More >>

Chris Christie: 'It Did Not Feel Right to Me in My Gut' to Run for Prez

In a non-shocking un-turn of events today, Chris Christie announced today that he will continue to not be running for president. In the process, he set himself up for some truly unfortunate fat jokes. He told everyone to get the hell off the beach made a wisecrack or two about his non-campaign: "New ... More >>

The Suckadelic Era

The designer-toy world's biggest jerkbag thinks you're an asshole for reading this story.

Atys: He'll Take the Nymph

Jean-Baptiste Lully's masterpiece French-Baroques its way back to BAM

The Other Koch Brother

In the shadow of his brothers' Tea Party fame, Bill Koch seems almost like a normal billionaire.

Chris Christie Squabbles With Mike Bloomberg Over 9/11 Ceremony

​The ten-year anniversary of 9/11, which could be the last hurrah for the Tribute in Light, is also presenting itself as a good opportunity for area politicians to bicker with each other. New Jersey governor Chris Christie is trying to stage-manage the ceremony, basically, and Mayor Bloomberg ... More >>

Chris Christie and Roger Ailes Have a Secret Relationship; It Sucks to Work For AOL

​Fox News boss Roger Ailes loves Chris Christie and has made no secret of his desire for the New Jersey governor to run for president in 2012. Christie maintains that he's 100% not running this time around, though that hasn't stopped a relationship from blooming between the powerful Republican ... More >>

The Misbegotten Career of Roy Lichtenstein

42.6 million can be wrong

Red Riding Hood: Trying to Cash in on Twilight's Success

Return of the Dick—Jeff Koons's Porn Pictures

The artist drips back into sight

Bidding A Dead Horse: Put Your Finger on the Trigger

Want a dead horse? Run down to Christie's and bid on Roy Rogers' legendary Trigger (or whatever form of him exists in the creepily beautiful version photographed here by Brian Cummings). For an estimated $100,000 to $2,000,000, you can own the taxidermied golden palomino steed and all his happy tr ... More >>

Vintage Wall Street Sign to Sell for $60,000 to $80,000

​The latest in awesome -- albeit very expensive -- New York signage is an original street sign that was stationed at the intersection of Wall and Broad Streets during the late-19th/early 20th centuries. Christie's is auctioning it off on Tuesday, and expects it to go for between $60,000 and $8 ... More >>

WARHOL FOREVER

15 minutes extends into infinity

Scoring the Wall Street Journal/New York Times Newspaper War: The Smacktalk Showdown

​So, while we wait to find out if anybody actually cares about any of this besides some media junkies and the players involved, it's worth noting that The Newspaper War has been a particularly dirty one! How dirty? Funny you should ask.

Wine Box Inventor Dies; Hello Kitty Sells Wine

​Forget the soda tax. Now, lawmakers are aiming to get their grubby little hands on our beer! A tax increase on mass-market beer -- microbrews would be exempt -- is one of the first new revenue-raising ideas Democrats have come up with in weeks. [AP] The Castello Plan in Ditmas Park, The Bode ... More >>

The Glass Menagerie, The Fairy Queen, and A Cool Dip—Productions or Battlefields?

'Master Class with William Christie'

Chinese Winemakers Go High-End; Anheuser-Busch to Make More Beer with Less Water

​After years of producing cheap, bad wine, Chinese winemakers are creating high-end offerings, catering to a an increasingly affluent and sophisticated Chinese consumer. [Wall Street Journal] Christie's has announced it will auction Pablo Picasso's portrait, "The Absinthe Drinker," for betwee ... More >>

New Jersey Still Not Superior to New York, Votes Down Gay Marriage

​The New Jersey Senate voted down gay marriage today, effectively ending any hopes for marriage equality in the Garden State until at least the end of incoming Governor Chris Christie's first term in 2014. The defeat mirrors a similar blow-out in the New York State Senate last month. Both hou ... More >>

Corzine Still Leads in Jersey Despite Voter Hatred

A new poll of "likely voters" shows Jon Corzine maintaining his 3-point lead over Chris Christie for the governorship of New Jersey. Whereas the previous poll gave Corzine a 40-37 edge on Christie, in today's Rutgers-Eagleton tally each of them lost a point, presumably to third-party challenger Chri ... More >>

Dorothy Iannone at the New Museum; Cheim & Reid's 'The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women'

Plus Leona Christie's 'Parts and Labor' at Redflagg

10 Rillington Coolly Documents the Case of an Infamous Lady Killer

It's all in the execution

Bones' Beat: Richard Prince's Canal Zone at Gagosian

Brooklyn's Industry City Forges A New Kind of Arts District

An art world sprouts near Sunset Park, DUMBO be damned

Does A-Rod Swing "That Way"?

Next year in Orlando! Nailing Florida's born-again theme park. Back here, the usual unholier- than-thou experiences.

D-I-V-O-R-C-E: The Sordid Celeb Splits of Christie Brinkley, Alex Rodriguez

Diamonds are Forever

Rudy Giuliani downplays the value of his jewelry collection

Spanish Bombs

Seeing Dollar Signs

Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid?

Games That Reveal the Meaning of Life

Dreamy Poirets, the Nazi Chanel, and Other Tales of Paris

Film

Moliere in the Dark

When a comic genius sheds light on sickness, fraud, and greed, why turn the light off?

Pillow Talk

Profiles in the sack

Tropes of the Times

When Did Inside and Outside Get So Chummy?

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Ballet at the Barricades

An Englishman Works America, and a French Canadian Invades the Baroque

Monsters, Inc.

As the Lights Go Down

Pauline Kael, 1919–2001

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The Stars Look Down

Jackie, Diana, and Marilyn at the Costume Institute

Twin Leaks

Trulock Gives 'Times'-Bashing a Bad Name

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Estrangedland

Turning glacial galleries into comfort zones