Tonight at the Noguchi Museum's Annual Spring Benefit, architect Lord Norman Foster, whose high-tech, ultra-modern designs include New York's Hearst Tower and Berlin's Reichstag dome, will receive the inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award (artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is also a recipient)—an honor that recognizes a career-long commitment to innovation and global ... More

When Olympia Le-Tan was a child, she would visit her grandparents for weekends of afternoon tea, embroidery and painting lessons. It was the perfect start to her now incredibly successful line, a playful collection of embroidered book clutches and ready-to-wear. Her latest collection was inspired by magic and all the ... More

I’m sitting in the dimly lit screening room of Bill Maher’s Beverly Hills home, and it’s becoming increasingly hard to concentrate. Maher’s dog, a Chihuahua-greyhound mutt, has taken to humping me with reckless abandon. (Chico, I later discover, is notorious for this sort of thing.) The room is ... More

Arianna Huffington wakes up every day with the weight of a booming media company resting on her shoulders. Yet somehow, despite the chaos, she commits to a full eight hours of shut-eye each night and sets aside at least 10 minutes each morning for meditation. It wasn’t always this way, though. ... More

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 won’t be Andrew Garfield’s only on-screen appearance this summer. At an April 27 sneak preview of his second movie as the infamous superhero, the star revealed he’s currently at work on a public service announcement for Worldwide Orphans Foundation, the group that co-hosted the ... More

On the surface, the luxury watch business and the film industry don’t seem to have a whole lot in common. Dig a bit deeper, though, the two might have more similarities than you’d expect. “Luxury watches are not just sold through functions,” says Georges Kern, the CEO of Swiss luxury watch ... More

John Maloof first discovered the work of Vivian Maier in 2007, when he bought a box of her negatives at a Chicago auction house. Maloof was planning on using the photos to illustrate projects of his own, but soon enough recognized something special about the works he’d acquired. “I didn’t buy ... More

"I really, really like clients who cannot express an idea in words," says Adam Tihany, who'd much rather they cook for him instead. That's because Tihany's clients are Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud and Jean-Georges Vongerichten—just to name a few. They're some of the world's top chefs renowned for their ... More

Any camera phone owner worth her Instagram followers knows there's a flood of knowledge to discover about someone through the photos on their smartphone. This month, Milk Gallery gave the world a look through Peter Arnell's. The former ad man's first retrospective, running through April 1, spans 30 ... More

Richard Avedon named her “the most beautiful woman in the world.” In 1967, Life Magazine put her on their cover, calling her “the girl everybody stares at.” But if a single word is needed to describe the German Countess Veruschka, born Vera von Lehndorff, we'd say it's transformative. Formerly unseen pictures by Johnny ... More