Chelsea News

Dagmar Dyck, a celebrated Auckland artist of Tongan heritage is exhibiting her latest work in Wellington's Solander Gallery from May 15 until June 15, 2013.

Today, May 19 at 2 p.m., Staten Island Museum Art Curator Robert Bunkin will present "Fresco: A Modern Perspective," at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum.

The Met Ball got celebrities in a tizzy for its "Punk: Chaos to Couture" theme: Exes Ryan Seacrest and Julianne Hough had a tearful bump-in, Leo DiCaprio "kept his distance" from former girlfriend Gisele Bundchen, and a broken-up Rihanna and Chris Brown tried to out-party each other in disastrous ways.

The "Smash" star checked out a stunning apartment at 131 W. 24th St. The $4.75 million, 4,200-square-foot duplex co-op is a five-bedroom, three-bedroom prewar loft with an unusually low $1,300-a-month maintenance fee.

This week, Barneys CEO Mark Lee held a reception at his Chelsea apartment for the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award, an annual grant of $25,000 to two playwrights-one British and one American-whose work hasn't yet been produced on the West End or on Broadway.

Maybe you didn't notice, but last month a New York City institution closed its doors forever.

That's all about to change as a series of paintings about prominent area residents and an exhibit of nude portraits have earned Budreau national and international attention.

"Chromatic Rhapsodies" opened last weekend in a pop-up space hosted by Vera and Melchor in Chelsea , New York.

Labeling art or artists with a national identity doesn't hold much significance when geographical and national borders are being blurred in the international art world.