Live performances of Blood Orange, an R&B-and-electronic-music project, consist of Dev Hynes, a guitar, and a laptop. The English-born, New York–based singer is also a songwriter, record producer, and director who has collaborated with artists including Solange Knowles, FKA twigs, A$AP Rocky, Blondie, Philip Glass, and Mariah Carey. But it’s his soaring, symphonic scores—and his work ethic—that have set him apart.
Villani
Long before more than 1,000 guests swarmed the block party of the summer, at O’Flaherty’s, the Lower East Side gallery she co-owns, Jamian Juliano-Villani sold a painting at Sotheby’s for $400,000. Her work—mishmashes of sourced imagery—is in the collections of the Guggenheim and the Whitney. She is currently trying to convert Andy Kaufman’s old apartment—complete with original stage—into another gallery. But the landlord is being difficult.
