"Indeed, some art-world players were exceedingly relaxed. At 11:45 AM on Tuesday, less than an hour after the fair began, collector Peter Brant, dealers Alberto Mugrabi and Tony Shafrazi, and actor Owen Wilson could be seen playing liar’s poker at a round table in the corner of the Regen Projects stand. (Apparently, Shafrazi finished four hundred dollars up, but Wilson won the game.)" (ArtForum)
"Gnarls Barkley, Battles and Janelle Monae played the 150th MySpace Secret Show at the Fillmore NY @ Irving Plaza last night (June 8, 2008). It was hot, sweaty, crowded and free. People waited on line for hours in the sweltering heat to get in. The line started forming around 2pm. Gnarls Barkley took the stage around 9:45, and their performance, outfits and all, was very similar to the show they recently played at Highline Ballroom. That is not a bad thing." (BrooklynVegan)
"Oscar season is still many months away, but at this time of year I find myself keeping a non-Oscar list. My list consists of those performers who will surely be excluded from Oscar contention by the Academy for one key reason: They’re in a hit movie. Robert Downey Jr. is a 'definite' on my non-Oscar list. He was a superb 'Iron Man,' but his movie already has rolled past the $520 million mark worldwide. Oops, a hit! That means the Oscar probably will go to Benicio Del Toro, the star of 'Che.' Few people will ever get to see 'Che,' which, in its present 4½ hour form, won a few critical accolades at Cannes. Academy voters will like that." (Peter Bart/Variety)
"A visual feast--including tiny ballerinas in white tutus, costumed acrobats on a tightrope, a performer on gigantic stilts and posing women clad in Russian burlesque--greeted guests on the grounds of Hampton Court Palace Saturday night. Hugh Grant, Anouck Lepère and Jefferson Hack, Kate Beckinsale, Charlotte Casiraghi, Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom, Joan Collins, Mary J. Blige, Joely Richardson, Stella McCartney, Daphne Guinness and hosts Mikhail Gorbachev, Evgeny Lebedev and Tatler editor Geordie Greig all appeared at the third-annual Raisa Gorbachev Foundation fundraiser." (Fashionweekdaily)
"Holy shit. There’s Matt Drudge. In person. In D.C. With Glover Park Group's Tracy Sefl. (Sefl featured in the NYT article last year about how Clinton + Drudge = Internet heaven.) Tracy's Facebook friends include Ana Marie Cox and Mike Allen! Matt Drudge is wearing a brown Munsen Wear polo shirt and a bulging upper body. He keeps his wallet in his back pocket, it seems." (Observer)
"People were growing impatient, waiting to deplane at Stockholm-Arlanda as a faded red carpet was being unrolled, laboriously, across the tarmac. The preview of the Moderna Museet’s exhibition 'Eclipse: Art in a Dark Age' would soon be starting, and I should have been on my way to the hotel, but I was still in seat 14B. Outside rippled an American flag. Two snipers were positioned on the roof of Terminal Five. Eventually, a reedy man descended the portable staircase, and the passenger seated next to me whispered, 'It’s the what’s-he-called? Like the president of the UN. That Korean guy.' It was then, on the Thursday morning before last, while United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon was shaking hands and being photographed, that it became apparent that the museum’s fiftieth anniversary and the opening of 'Eclipse' would be, in terms of civic to-do, overshadowed by a UN-sponsored conference on Iraq. This seemed to support the show’s point. That weekend’s strong bureaucratic presence—hotels were filled, police deployed, central streets closed regularly (apparently whenever Condoleezza Rice was coming through)—served as a felicitous backdrop to the picture that exhibition curator Magnus af Petersens sought to paint .. Artist, friends, and—I haven’t checked you all, but I think—ladies and gentleman,; began the jovial Nittve, the first speaker of many during the subsequent dinner celebrating the museum’s anniversary. Victoria, crown princess of Sweden, appeared in white on the large flat-screen TVs displaying live feeds, while Nittve thanked the guests for enduring the traffic and 'fighting Condoleezza Rice,' which got a hearty laugh." (Artforum)
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