Performance Art

In the past, it was either kings or bourgeois," said Tiffany & Co. chief executive officer Frederic Cumenal, cohosting a party with the Whitney Museum to celebrate its Biennial artists. Some artists might balk at the idea of "selling out" via a bag (or, in the case of Katz, T-shirt) collaboration, but it might just be the ticket out of relative art world obscurity. While many VIPs begin to leave the whole Basel ordeal just in time for the weekend masses to flood the island and harass party list-keepers, Madonna's benefit concert on Dec. 2 kept many in town an extra day this year.