Justin Vivian Bond Will Host Auntie Glam's Happy Hour Today

Justin Vivian Bond will host a new episode of Auntie Glam's Happy Hour today! The episode will be hosted on their Instagram live, here.

The stream is free to watch, but Bond accepts tips through a virtual tip jar, located here.

Mx Justin Vivian Bond has appeared on stage (Broadway and Off-Broadway, London's West End), screen (Shortbus, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Sunset Stories, television (High Maintenance, Difficult People, The Get Down), nightclub stages (most notably a decades long residency at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater in NYC), and in concert halls worldwide (Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House).

Their visual art and installations have been seen in museums and galleries in the US (Participant, Inc, The New Museum) and abroad (Vitrine, London).

Their memoir Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels (Feminist Press) won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.

They are the recipient of an Obie, a Bessie, and a Tony nomination, an Ethyl Eichelberger Award, The Peter Reed Foundation Grant, The Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant for Artists, and The Art Matters Grant.

Justin Vivian Bond is the Upstate goth in the chambeige minivan

As part of Birkenstock’s 1774 collaboration series, Document Journal meets 10 creatives making the Hudson Valley a kingdom of their own. Near Hudson, the performer slows down to a trot.

Justin Vivian Bond’s first great act was the immortal Kiki DuRane, a songstress of the old school—drunk, world-weary, perpetually in thrall to an old-world glamor. Kiki and her musical collaborator, Herb, made it all the way to the bright lights of Broadway and a 2007 Tony nomination, a defining moment for downtown culture. The pair briefly reunited in 2016, but today Bond tends to focus on solo outings, including annual cabaret stints at the Spiegeltent, the fabulous 1920s pavilion, all louche velvet furnishings and Weimar vibes, that sits at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. Bond, who prefers they/them/their as gender pronouns, has a house near Hudson, 20 miles upriver from Bard, where they escape New York City each summer. “It’s really grounding to not just have stressed-out type A people around you all the time,” they say. “It’s hard to survive in the city if you’re not going at full gallop.”

Retail Therapy.

“WHAT I LOVE ABOUT RACHEL IS she has this alchemy,” said former Olympic swimmer Casey Legler, by way of introduction to Rachel Comey’s Fall/Winter 2020 runway show on Thursday evening at the SoHo restaurant/showroom La Mercerie. “Her art form lends itself to people who not only do things, but do really powerful, impactful things.” She was referring primarily to the time her wife Siri May, the United Nations program coordinator for LGBT rights group OutRight Action International, wore a Comey dress at the UN Open Debate on Women, Peace, and Security, giving the New York label a diplomatic gravitas. “The idea for this salon was born of that moment,” Legler explained, mentioning a few of the night’s politically minded speakers.

Rachel Comey’s Dinner and a Fashion Show Returns With Even More to Chew On

Thursday night, after a show well done, Rachel Comey tucked a dinner menu into her purse to take home and show her husband, who she says she hasn’t seen “in days.” She’s been busy putting together a dinner-party-slash-fashion-show for a small group again. It’s an event that’s been a beloved addition to the New York Fashion Week calendar since circa 2013, but one she took a break from two years ago. “I just missed it, I guess,” Comey said. “And I got a lot of requests. It’s such a great way to engage my work with all these people that I totally admire.”

The dinner and a show was back, but it was also new. It wasn’t staged in Brooklyn like usual, but at La Mercerie on Howard Street. One could call it a cabaret, with longtime guest of Comey’s shows Justin Vivian Bond offering her downy vocals while models walked. And it was a salon too, according to the dinner’s host, former model and Olympic swimmer Casey Legler. Comey and Legler invited a few women to speak on a topic of their choosing before a few waves of models. Lourdes Rivera, senior vice president of the Center for Reproductive Rights spoke on the attacks pushing Roe v. Wade up against a changing Supreme Court, and Aminatou Sow, cultural critic and woman about town, spoke on friendship (she and Ann Friedman have a book on the subject forthcoming).

Transformation with Glenn Close and Ted Nash With Nijawwon Matthews, Wayne Brady, Adriane Lenox and More

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra saxophonist Ted Nash, a visionary composer at the top of his game. His creation for the JLCO, The Presidential Suite, earned him Grammy Awards for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album and Best Instrumental Composition in 2017. The performance piece last was a world premiere of his new work, Transformation, featuring Wynton Marsalis and award–winning actor and personal friend Glenn Close.

This original work was inspired by pieces, curated by Close, exploring the idea of transformation in the tangible and intangible sense, from chaos to order, darkness to light, hatred to forgiveness.

Starting the night out with the text also by Ted Hughes Creation (from Tales from Ovid) delivered by Ms. Close and Wayne Brady led to Nijawwon Matthews being created and made into man.