Our minds are packed with preconceived notions when we look at any object, no matter how ordinary; we can’t help it. Artist Wolfgang Tillmans wants to change that. In the recently published Taschen book Neue Welt (“New World”), Tillmans’ ... More

Actress Elisabeth Röhm has been in the public eye for years, thanks to numerous roles in movies and on TV shows (for four years, she starred as assistant district attorney Serena Southerlyn on Law & Order). She currently appears on Lifetime’s The Client List. These days, however, the German-born, New York-raised actress ... More

People often hang their museum-quality art on the wall, but some sweet-smelling art aficionados will be keeping this particular objet in a more unusual place: the medicine cabinet. Renowned French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum that covers 25 years of his ... More

Cathie Black is taking notes. The topic is 10x10, a social action campaign aimed at raising the bar for the worldwide education of girls, and at the living room table in her Park Avenue apartment, Black is jotting down what her friend, film producer and 10x10 executive Kayce ... More

A collective gasp hushed the party chatter; silverware stopped clinking; ribald jokes went unfinished. A waiter had dropped a glass of cognac. On a guest. While a spill could ruin anyone's night, this dram was from Rémy Martin’s Louis XIII Rare Cask. At $22,000 a bottle, this was an ... More

When Stephen di Renza came to Fez in 1999 to purchase a riad—a traditional Moroccan house—he was only the second foreigner ever to do so, he says. “I couldn’t believe people weren’t coming here and buying up these beautiful old buildings for vacation homes.” In the past decade, throughout ... More

"I remember the first time I saw Guillermo Kuitca’s collage work—I was immediately curious to learn more. It felt very minimal and textural, with a lot of soul. I was able to meet him through Angela Westwater, his dealer at Sperone Westwater gallery, and got ... More

In some ways, they’re a bit of an odd couple: She’s a cool, almost painfully chic lifelong Manhattan resident and he’s a stylishly shaggy Georgia native a dozen years her junior. But ever since Olivia Chantecaille met Wes Gordon at the Chicago History Museum—at the opening of an exhibit of ... More

At 91 years old, Iris Apfel calls herself “the world’s oldest living teenager.” If that’s the case, then Bergdorf Goodman, the Manhattan department store celebrating its 111th birthday this September, is her clubhouse. “This store has so much personality; it’s not like any other I know of,” Apfel ... More

When you get caught between the moon and New York City, the best that you can do is fall in love. Carole Bayer Sager won an Oscar for that sentence and for the ones that preceded and followed it in “Arthur’s Theme,” the song she penned with Burt Bacharach and ... More