Pedro Almodovar film gala raises $1 Million for MoMA and attracts plenty of SAG card members thanks to Chanel sponsorship.

Big magazine launches don’t happen every day, so it was momentous when Interview Russia’s editor Aliona Doletskaya asked Richard Phillips to collaborate on their debut December cover. The other involved parties were Brigitte Lacombe and a certain A-lister subject named Leonardo DiCaprio. The result? A wonderful rendition with a revived Warholian logo and Phillips’ sharp tribute to Richard Bernstein best Interview efforts. Phillips successfully paid homage to Bernstein’s pop powers during for his Most Wanted for White Cube series last year and took his knowledge to the next step here. “For Bernstein, Interview truly was his ultimate form of expression,” said Phillips. “Although he made art before, during, and after, it was his involvement in the magazine that propelled him into the pop culture milieu. His images reprocessed and made tactile Warhol’s untouchable veneers of high art celebrity objects. And Warhol created an ever-evolving vehicle that had the potential to humanize and bring life to the celebrated individuals that made up his experiences both in his life, his work, and beyond.” The collaboration came full circle last week when DiCaprio's (11.11.11!) birthday present was a signed Most Wanted book by Phillips.

Wayne Thiebaud’s “Cakes" is the most popular work at the National Gallery. 4,500 postcards of the work are sold every year.