Overheard in the Art World

Every Friday, we post things in “Overheard in the Art World.” #OHAW Honestly, art world, don’t take yourself so seriously.

This week, summer officially began for the art world with the opening of Tomas Sarceno’s “Cloud City” on the roof of the Met. And you know what happens when summer begins for the art world? People start talking of weekends in the Hamptons, whats “hot” and “what’s not,” and NO ONE wants to be seen eating a “pig in a blanket.”

“Pigs in a blanket? Really, Performa?”
— overheard at Performa Benefit

“Pigs in a blanket? Really?”
— overheard at Tom Sachs’s Space Programs: Mars opening at Park Avenue Armory

“Uh … [with sigh of city disgust] I can’t wait to get to the Hamptons this weekend.”
— overheard on the sun-filled roof of the Metropolitan Museum during the Tomas Sarceno Cloud City opening

“Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn is bidding on EVERYTHING.”
— overheard at Performa Benefit

“Um, is there a VIP line?”
— overheard at entrance of Storefront’s Secret Sounds of the City party at The McKittrick Hotel

Man: “I need to take some clients to some openings tonight, any suggestions?”
Woman: “Are they hot?”
Man: “If you were in finance you would realize there was no one hot at this bank. One of them is married, fat, has a horrid greased haircut and lives with his ugly wife and four kids in North Carolina, which just voted to ban people like me.”
— overheard in a zingrecsNY newsletter-forwarded email chain sent to #OHAW

Guy #1: “Who is that guy Tom Sachs is talking to?”
Guy #2: “He looks like Kanye West but fatter.”
— overheard at Tom Sachs’s Space Programs: Mars opening at Park Avenue Armory in front of the artist talking to Kanye West

“Hey, people in the back of the room! Are you bidding or just drinking?”
— auctioneer overheard at Performa Benefit

Girl #1: “How’s MoMA boy?”
Girl #2: “He called me the ‘worst person ever’”
Girl #1: “Ha! Dramatic, much?”
Girl #2: “I know! I was like, worse than the father you never met? Worse than the mom who had 8 husbands before you turned 15? Man, I’m sorry!”
— overheard at Anton Kern Gallery Opening

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