"For those unfamiliar with the party series, MoMA extends its operating hours and hires DJs. Ticketing desks become cash bars. Lights are dimmed, and the white cube cycles through dance-floor hues of green, pink, blue, and red. It's an exercise in nightclub cosplay. You can drink alcohol, and the music is loud. Hence the name "Party." If you do the math, the $15 ticket is 50 percent cheaper than visiting the museum during regular hours."
"I could hear Crystalmess in the atrium, even though she was playing upstairs, thanks to a set of white pyramid-shaped column speakers that look like a 3D-printed Robert Mills -designed national monument. This was not my first encounter with the speakers. In early March 2020, I worked a Pace dinner at Julian Schnabel's three-floor, pink Venetian-style West Village complex. It was catered by Carbone. Actors John Turturro and Michael Pitt were among the guests. We rented those speakers for music and remarks."
Arthur Jafa attended a Museum of Modern Art Artist Party and later sat front row at Matthieu Blazy's debut Chanel Haute Couture show beside Nicole Kidman, wearing a light gray shearling coat, medium-wash jeans, and white cowboy mules. An Instagram story from dealer Gavin Brown corroborated Jafa's presence at the MoMA event; Brown currently has an early work up for auction with bidding starting at $150 for two photostatic prints. MoMA's Party series extends operating hours, hires DJs, converts ticketing desks into cash bars, and transforms the white cube into dance-floor color cycles. Tickets cost $15, half the regular admission price, prompting many attendees to spend on canned rosé. A set of white pyramid-shaped column speakers provided loud music in the atrium and had previously been rented for a Pace dinner at Julian Schnabel's West Village complex.
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