After Jeffrey Deitch’s controversial and ill-fated run as the head of LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art, he’s turned around and become a fixture on New York’s art and social scenes this fall.
This month, the former Deitch Projects art dealer has been spotted at bashes including Jeff Koons’ unveiling of his $20,000 Dom Perignon bottle, Emmanuel Perrotin’s wild art carnival at the Russian Tea Room with Pharrell Williams and, on Monday, a dinner for 40 in a $16 million condo with guests including Freida Pinto, Ian Somerhalder, MoMA’s Paola Antonelli, a French-Tunisian graffiti artist and the foreign minister of Botswana.
The bash at the Lee Mindel-designed apartment in the Marquand celebrated Conde Nast Traveler’s Visionaries issue.
Meanwhile, the buzz is that Deitch — whose 1984 show Calligraffiti has been resuscitated at Leila Heller Gallery — has also met with Alan Faena, the Argentine billionaire who’s brought Baz Luhrmann, Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster into his planned Faena District Miami Beach project with condos, a hotel and arts and retail spaces. But sources said those meetings have yet to blossom into a formal business relationship.