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The Art World’s Night Out

Inside New York’s grandest example of midcentury modernism, as Art Production Fund celebrated its 25th anniversary with a semi-risqué slumber party that coaxed the art and fashion worlds to get into bed together.

Doreen Remen, Yvonne Force Villareal, Casey Fremont Crowe, Kathleen Lynch
Art Production Fund was founded in 2000 by Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen with the mission of “commissioning and producing ambitious public art projects," before handing the reins to Casey Fremont Crowe and Kathleen Lynch in 2016. Photo: BFA/Zach Hilty
Julie Brener Davich
March 14, 2025

On Wednesday night, Art Production Fund celebrated its 25th anniversary with its annual bash at The Grill—the Carbone-ified site of the old Four Seasons in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building. The gala united the fashion and art worlds, and blurred the lines between racy and drowsy with its slumber party theme and playful Truth or Dare dress code. APF easily packed the room with 300 well-heeled attendees; individual tickets were sold (by invitation only) via a password-protected website for a relatively reasonable $1,500 or $2,000, with tables going for $15,000 or $25,000 a pop. “We want to engage the next generation and get their buy-in to philanthropy,” APF’s executive director, Casey Fremont Crowe, told me.