Times Square Gossip

  Heidi Skolnik With Wolf Blitzer Nutritionist, exercise physiologist and bestselling author Heidi Skolnik, MS, CDN, FACSM, celebrated the publication of her new book, Your GLP-1 Game Plan: What Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You About How to Eat, Move, and Thrive on Weight Loss Medication, with a special reception at ⁠One Art Space in Tribeca. Hosted by Michael Glantz, the evening brought guests together for bubbles, bites, an author talk and book signing inside the Warren Street gallery, where the final night of celebrated artist Hunt Slonem’s Through the Looking Glass provided a colorful and unexpected backdrop for a conversation about health, nutrition and navigating life on GLP-1 medications.   Hunt Slonem With Victoria Pebbles Published by Little, Brown Spark and released September 22nd, 2026 Your GLP-1 Game Plan is designed as a practical, evidence-based guide for people who are considering or already taking GLP-1 medications. Rather than focusing solely on the medication, Sko...

  One Are Space Tribeca New York City One Art Space Tribeca and the National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) proudly present Art Angels, a special exhibition celebrating the extraordinary women artists and dedicated volunteers whose creativity, leadership, and generosity continue to advance one of America’s most historic arts organizations. On view through Saturday, August 15th, 2026 at One Art Space, 23 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007, Art Angels represents a meaningful alliance between One Art Space Tribeca, a women-owned gallery dedicated to creating opportunities for artists, and NAWA, the first professional women’s art organization founded in the United States. An opening reception will be held Thursday, August 6th, 2026, from 5:00pm – 7:00pm. The annual Art Angels exhibition honors NAWA Signature Members who generously contribute their time, talent, and creativity to support NAWA’s mission to educate, empower, and create opportunities for women artists. These rema...

Code Switching     Artist Don Hershman will present = OUT OF LINE =, a solo exhibition opening Thursday, October 1st, 2026, at One Art Space in Tribeca. Curated from four distinct bodies of work, the exhibition brings together paintings from The Art of Code Switching (2023), I Am a Barn (2024), Urban Abstraction (2025), and Still/Still (2025) to reveal the evolution of a singular visual language centered on the line. Across barns, city surfaces, still life’s and portraiture, Hershman uses repeated and overlapping lines to build color, rhythm, atmosphere and emotional resonance. About Don Hershman: Don Hershman is a San Francisco-based artist who lives a compelling dual life, balancing the concrete position of medicine with the expressive freedom of painting. As a nationally recognized podiatric surgeon, he is known for his innovation, structural focus, and meticulous attention to detail. Those same qualities inform his artistic practice, where the confidence to make decisive m...

  The Animals In The Street    One Art Space in Tribeca will present “Chuck Connelly: Tribeca’s Midnight Parade — When Art Runs Wild” Co-Curated by Adrienne Connelly and MaryAnn Giella McCulloh. This special exhibition honors the late artist Chuck Connelly through a body of work that reflects the energy, individuality and creative spirit of downtown New York.  The exhibition opens with a private VIP reception followed by the public exhibition on view from Friday, April 24th through Sunday, May 3rd, 2026, daily from 12:00pm to 6:00pm, at One Art Space, 23 Warren Street, Tribeca. At the heart of the exhibition is “Animals in the Street,” a 1994 painting created during a period when Chuck Connelly was living and working from his loft studio on Franklin Street in Tribeca. The work transforms everyday neighborhood life into something theatrical, charged and unforgettable. In Connelly’s vision, the people moving along the street take on animal identities, each one carrying...

Rhapsody In Bloom By Mitchell Rodbell   One Art Space will present The Space Between Us, a group exhibition curated by Mitchell Rodbell, at the gallery’s TriBeCa location at 23 Warren Street. The show brings together 13 featured artists, including Rodbell, Miyuki Fuji, Madhu Powar Garg, Marietta Gavaris, Yasuji Hirashiki, John Kneapler, Suyapa Quinn, Toby Rabiner, Candace Raney, Jacqueline Rey, Jules Schaffer, Susana Tavel and Heidi Teuscher, for a weeklong presentation that explores connection, contrast and the emotional charge that can live in the spaces we share. An opening reception will be held Thursday, January 15th, with a VIP hour from 6:00pm to 7:00pm followed by a public reception from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. The exhibition will be on view Monday, January 12th through Sunday, January 18th, 2026. Rodbell, a New York City based artist known for work shaped by color, movement, and the textures of the natural world, curates the exhibition with an eye toward visual dialogue across s...

  Don Hershman Elton Ilirjani With Julia Ilirjani Fresh off the heels of his last sold-out show in New York, ‘Donald and Victor:  Under the Influence,’ visionary artist Don Hershman turned his passion once again into purpose with his newest exhibition of 20 paintings entitled “The Art of Code Switching,” which debuted at the Salomon Arts Gallery in Manhattan’s Tribeca district.   The show is a brilliant symphony of single and double imagery enmeshing color and shadows – used as a metaphor for the increasing need for social navigation.  People of color, women and the LGBTQ community are once again faced with Code Switching, a social tool altering language and behavior and becoming increasingly compulsory within today’s shifting political climate.  “Like many artists, my paintings are an expression of my personal and political surroundings.  It’s 2023.  This is what’s happening.” Sparkling Wine served at the reception was supplied courtesy of Single Marr...

Joanna Carpenter Town Stages announces the opening of their bar, now with summer hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 5pm-10pm at Town Stages, 221 West Broadway, NYC. For more information, visit www.townstages.com . The summer cocktail menu includes Joanna's Aunt Pearl's Gin Rickey, Big Barrel Old Fashioned, Smoky Paloma, and a Lavender Collins ($1 from each sale of Lavender Collins goes to Girls for Gender Equity, in partnership with Zirkova Vodka). Joanna Carpenter (Bar Director) hails most recently from the world of craft spirits brand management. She is an industry leader in beverage/ brand relationship cultivation, and designing niche bar concepts. A seasoned hospitality veteran, Joanna has helped create cocktails for some of New York City's most recognizable spaces and is a proud, active advocate for creating equal visibility and support for women and persons of color in hospitality. Joanna is a singer, actor, and director. Town Stages (R...

Town Stages New York City Town Stages is now open at 221 West Broadway, NYC. Located in the heart of Tribeca, TOWN is New York's premier venue to celebrate, collaborate and put on a show. A new female-driven cultural arts institution and venue space, Town Stages is a state-of-the-art, flexible performance and event space that can support the entire lifecycle of New York's hallmark industries. With a stunning 9,000 square foot storefront facility, TOWN provides world-class cultural experiences and opportunities for all: from civic to corporate, tech to theater. With a Mainstage, a Cabaret Lounge, and a multi-use event space with a capacity of 225, Town Stages will offer much-needed space and production resources for businesses, arts organizations, and families. TOWN boasts ticketed performances and curated community programing, from performance art to dance to theatre, and is also available for fashion shows, film shoots, weddings, and beyond. ...

Chanel Iman Chanel Iman was recently spotted at the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca sporting a trendy Care Bears' 18 Ounce Acrylic Travel Cup. These double walled acrylic travel cups have bold and bright designs of the Care Bears, and is also condensation resistant, BFA free and perfect for hydrating on the go. If you could include this sighting in anything you are currently working on we would be so appreciative! To get your Care Bears Travel Cup, please visit: Vandor.com . Photo By: Michael Simon/Star Tracks / Domain  

**** REAL NEW YORKER'S **** De Niro In Cigar Aficionado Happy Birthday Mr. De Niro! The legendary actor turned 72 yesterday, but he also covers Cigar Aficionado ’s newest issue with an exclusive interview. The issue hits newsstands August 25. Since its inception in 1992, Cigar Aficionado magazine’s editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken has conducted six interviews with unique men from different walks of life. The September/October issue offers Shanken’s seventh cover interview in the 23-year history of the magazine. All of these have been with men who rarely sit for interviews: · 1994: Cuban Leader Fidel Castro · 1995: Business Mogul Ronald O. Perelman · 2003: Director Francis Ford Coppola · 2003: War Hero General Tommy Franks · 2005: NBA Legend Michael Jordan · 2008: Hollywood Producer Arnon Milchan · 2015: Legendary Actor Robert De Niro De Niro, one of ...

Coco Rocha With Bisco Smith Coco Rocha, April Hunt, and more came to TriBeCa last night to experience the first exhibit of 12 by Bisco Smith presented by Soundwall The Connected Canvas. Rocha arrived hand in hand with her husband James Conran, looking beautiful in a black cut out fitted cocktail dress, showing off her svelte post-baby bod. Rocha and Conran mingled with artist Bisco Smith, DJ April Hunt, and Soundwall CEO Aaron Cohen, and instagrammed a photo of herself with her favorite piece alongside the caption: Getting hands on with @BiscoSmith's art at the @soundwallart event! They uniquely combined art, sound and technology in a way that I've never seen or heard before. Worth checking out! #soundwall12

Donnie Kehr With Broadway Dreams Broadway’s Donnie Kehr, who’s in the big-screen version of Jersey Boys (due out in June directed by Clint Eastwood) performed a song today with The Broadway Dreams theatre students today at The Tribeca Film Family Festival. The PATH Fund and Kehr’s Rockers On Broadway donates to the Broadway Dreams Foundation, who specialize in Arts Education. Says Kehr, “It was a great performance for a great cause and these kids are super talented.” In the below photo - Kehr is fifth from left with The Broadway Dreams students. Photo Courtesy Of: David Salidor

Kelly Rutherford Leslie Bibb And Sam Rockwell Kelly Bensimon Sam Rockwell, Jeffrey Wright, director David M. Rosenthal, writer Matthew F. Jones, producer Keith Kjarval, The Cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Kelly Rutherford, Kelly Bensimon, and Charlotte Ronson were just some of the celebs at the Tribeca Film & The Cinema Society screening and after-party of A SINGLE SHOT where Purity Cocktails were served. The screening was at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in NYC and the after-party was at Bar Nana. After the success of the screening The after-party kicked off with the entire cast of Queer Eye. The cast poses together at front bar for for photographers. Immediately after, each gentleman snatched up one of Purity’s signature vodka cocktails. Carson Kressley was spotted parading around venue with good friend and cast mate Thom Filica, both of whom loosely hung onto their overflowing Purity Vodka Gimlet drinks.