Dancers of the Ballet Hispanico. Santiago Felipe There’s something fitting about a ballet organization starting its annual spring gala with a world-class performance and ending with a packed ballroom. Ballet Hispánico has always approached its benefits as it approaches the art form it champions: with an energy that is creative, exhilarating and impossible to look … Read more
Todd Cohen and Rebecca Hessel Cohen. Madison McGaw/BFA.com Year after year, America’s Youth Grand Prix Gala fills the David H. Coach has a cross-sectional guest list that only ballet could conjure. This year’s “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow” gala attracted more than 300 guests to the Grand Promenade for an evening of … Read more
Dangerous spices. While hosting the 20th annual Time100 gala on Thursday night, Nikki Glaser grilled Victoria Beckham over her refusal to smile. “One of the most impressive people on the list is, of course, Victoria Beckham,” the comedian began in her opening monologue, as He was seen in a video published by The Hollywood Reporter. … Read more
Marisa Tomei and Sarah Arison. Yvonne TNT/BFA.com There are few more reliable signs that spring has arrived in New York than the annual return of the YoungArts Gala to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur, where members of the cultural, creative and philanthropic elite come together to celebrate the next generation of American … Read more
The upcoming $42.9 million renovation of the Bronx Museum of the Arts is scheduled to be unveiled later in 2026. Courtesy Marvel Of the many museum renovation and expansion projects to be completed in New York this year, the Bronx Museum is among the most anticipated. Announced in the summer of 2024 and scheduled for … Read more
Christine Forfel Stuss. Photo: Polina Vinogradova Last year, the Observer spoke to the co-directors of Hamburger Bahnhof Sam Bardawil and Even Velrath About the museum’s development and their shared organizational vision. “If there is one principle, it is this: a museum must be disruptive enough to remain alive in its moment and committed enough to … Read more
Huma Abedin, Nicky Hilton, Stacey Bendet, Jenny Mullen, and Caroline Tate Angel. Neil Rasmus/BFA.com The Arts Production Fund has thrown some memorable parties, but its 15th annual gala — an après-ski fantasia staged in the Seagram Building — was perhaps the most committed to it. Under cool blue lighting, fur-clad celebrities in flowing dresses and … Read more
new york city — The V Foundation for Cancer Research raised a record $3.1 million in New York on Wednesday night at its 10th annual “Boo-Yah” gala, a celebration of former ESPN anchor Stuart Scott. The event is named in honor of Scott’s catchphrase during his time as a SportsCenter announcer on ESPN. ESPN’s Rich … Read more
Washington– Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor are among the dignitaries being celebrated Sunday at the annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala, where Donald Trump will host the show, marking the first time a head honcho has taken over the stage instead of sitting on the opera house’s podium. Since returning to office in January, Trump … Read more
Jessica Pegula recently wore a stunning black dress while hosting the inaugural gala for her charity, ‘A Lending Paw.’ The event garnered various reactions from players like Jennifer Brady, Kim Clijsters, Shelby Rogers, and others, not only for her evening look but also for the funds raised and the charitable work being done. Pegula, a … Read more