Ariel Levy

Jan 27, 2025 | newyorker.com | Ariel Levy

Recently, Kim Hastreiter—artist, curator, co-founder of Paper magazine, and legendary downtown bon vivant—was having one of her parties. There were six kinds of soup and at least as many kinds of people: the tennis player John McEnroe; the artists Sarah Sze and Lisa Yuskavage; the musician James Murphy, of LCD Soundsystem, and his wife, the activist and restaurateur Christina Topsøe; the guy who did Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden.