Daily Intel Posts Tagged: whitney museum

D.J.’s Andrew Andrew Shill for Roosevelt Island

And they tell the only knock-knock joke that has surprised us in a really long time.

Posted 06/18/08 in Daily Intel : Party Lines
Tags: andrew andrew, art, djs, hillary clinton, party lines, real estate, roosevelt island, whitney museum
‘National Geographic’ Takes Home Three Awards at ASME Ceremony

Plus, things are looking up on Wall Street, Skadden is doing better at doing good, and Andre Balazs finally sells the Hotel QT — all in our daily industry roundup.

Posted 05/02/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
Tags: andre balazs, asme, blackstone group, bracewell and giuliani, company town, democrats, doubledown media, fox news, lenny dykstra, lower manhattan, merrill lynch, mets, national geographic, players club, renzo piano, rudy giuliani, skadden arps, standard hotel, steve schwarzman, vanity fair, wall street, warren buffett, whitney museum
Art Crowd Gets Heated at Armory Dance Party

It's hard to have a throwdown in skinny jeans, but on Saturday night at the Whitney Biennial’s 24-hour dance party at the Armory, it happened: The hipsters went wild. The event, the culmination of Agathe Snow’s 96-hour marathon of continuous dance, was cut seven hours short of the goal when, around 4 a.m., a fight erupted mid–dance floor. At first, onlookers thought the scuffle — which began with just handful of fighters and swelled to more than twenty — was an ironic piece of performance art. “I thought they were kidding,” said Eden Mackenzie, a video editor who was on the dance floor when the fists began to fly. “Then they all just started jumping on one guy and punching him as he lay on the ground.” Doreen Remen, co-founder of the Art Production Fund and one of the event’s producers played down the tussle to New York: “It was just two guys, and they were asked to leave,” she said. "It all happened very fast.” But Obinna Izeogu, an art director who attended the party described the scene as a “mini-riot," in which blows were traded for more than fifteen minutes as more partygoers joined in the fray that continued to swell even after D.J.'s killed the tunes (and Snow's vision of infinite dance). “It started off like two and then it just became a rumble,” said Izeogu. Armory security staff, unprompted, dialed 911 for reinforcements, and officers who responded called it “that gigantic fight”.

Posted 03/17/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
Tags: culture, doreen remen, eden mackenzie, fights, In Other News, obinna izeogu, the whitney biennial, whitney museum