"EVERYONE AT THE DINNER given by Balmain for Cécile B. Evans, held on the candlelit stage of an otherwise empty 2,200-seat concert hall after the “unveiling” of Evans’s new video piece, A Screen Test for an Adaptation of Giselle, seemed to have the same question: “Who are these people?” We asked an acquaintance who asked her date who asked a stranger and got an answer: Anyone in Miami who spent more than $50,000 at the Balmain store this year.
AT DAVID ZWIRNER’S ANNUAL Soho Beach House party, a charming pair of art advisors—Suzanne Modica and Ashley Carr—introduced us to one of their clients. Richard Mumby is thirty-five and handsome and calls us darling, nonsexually. He has good taste. He had purchased that week, for instance, a series of five Elle Pérez photographs, works by Richard Hawkins and Frances Stark, and he was about to get a Martin Wong. When we asked the price of the Stark, saying we’re curious because her work seems underrated, he said $32,000. That’s cheap, we replied as if we had a savings account. Modica winced. “As art advisors,” she said, “we use the word reasonable.”