By Ted Gushue 6/11/12 1:44pm

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Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld and Ingrid Sischy and the Gordon Parks Centennial Gala. (Leandro Justen/PatrickMcMullan.com)

Playing Sudden-Death Musical Chairs with James Murphy at the Gordon Parks Centennial Gala

We strolled into the Museum of Modern Art last Tuesday, for a gala honoring the centennial of the birth of the renowned photojournalist Gordon Parks, who passed away at 93 in 2006.

A quick nod to the door guy, and then promptly to the bar. Still off the sauce, we grabbed a seltzer and turned around to survey the scene, only to be immediately interrupted by a bronzed figure that had surveyed our less than macho bar order. “Did you just order a sparkling water, m’boy?” photographer Peter Beard asked us.

“Regrettably so,” we admitted to the man whose legendary life-long bender makes Bowie’s Thin White Duke phase look like rehab. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 4/13/12 9:30am

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Annie Leibovitz (Getty Images)

To Do Saturday: Annie Gets Your Funds

Annie Leibovitz’s place in the culture is secure as long as Vanity Fair is still being printed and doesn’t replace her glossy conceptualism with Terry Richardson’s stark sexscapes. But the lady caught a social consciousness from Susan Sontag, and now she’s giving back. For one, night, the Mayson Gallery is displaying Ms. Leibovitz’s photos in Read More