Skip to main content
Issues
Collections
Contributors
Vanity Fair Archive
VF.com
Sign In
Subscribe
Arts Fair
Beat It
December 1986
Richard Merkin
Share
Beat It
RICHARD MERKIN
December 1986
Subscribe
View Article Pages
Arts Fair
Beat It
December 1986
Richard Merkin
Subscribe to read this article
Already a subscriber?
Sign in
View Full Issue
More From This Issue
Features
CLASSIC MADONNA
December
1986
By
Michael Gross
Features
MYTHOMANIA
December
1986
By
Marie Brenner
Features
THE KING OF CARNEGIE
December
1986
By
Michael Shnayerson
Features
The Duchess of Prime Time
December
1986
By
Dominick Dunne
Features
Blowout
December
1986
By
Robert Hughes
Features
High Life in the Doll's House
December
1986
By
John Richardson
Join Today
Subscribers can unlock
every article
Vanity Fair
has ever published
Subscribe
Richard Merkin
Arts Fair
Bell Époque
February 1987
By
Richard Merkin
Fanfair
Thread Barons
March 1988
By
Richard Merkin
Columns
BILLY'S BLUES
August 1989
By
Richard Merkin
Columns
TOOTS SHOR
July 1996
By
Richard Merkin
Features
KRALL OF THE WILD
July 1999
By
Richard Merkin
Fanfair
Girl Cragy
November 2004
By
Richard Merkin
Arts Fair
Arts Fair
NIGHT-TABLE READING
May 1986
Arts Fair
The Crest of the Wave
December 1985
By
Craig Bromberg
Arts Fair
SET POINTS
July 1985
By
Gary Stern
Arts Fair
The Met's Ring and the Duke's Queenie Pie
September 1986
By
Gergory Sandow
Arts Fair
Books
April 1984
By
James Wolcott
Arts Fair
Jong Song
May 1987
By
Viva
More From This Issue
Features
CLASSIC MADONNA
December
1986
By
Michael Gross
Features
MYTHOMANIA
December
1986
By
Marie Brenner
Features
THE KING OF CARNEGIE
December
1986
By
Michael Shnayerson
Richard Merkin
Arts Fair
Bell Époque
February 1987
By
Richard Merkin
Fanfair
Thread Barons
March 1988
By
Richard Merkin
Columns
BILLY'S BLUES
August 1989
By
Richard Merkin
Arts Fair
Arts Fair
NIGHT-TABLE READING
May 1986
Arts Fair
The Crest of the Wave
December 1985
By
Craig Bromberg
Arts Fair
SET POINTS
July 1985
By
Gary Stern
Sign In to Your Account
Subscribers have complete access to the archive.
Sign In
Not a Subscriber?
Join Now
Access everything
Vanity Fair
has ever published.
Join Now
Subscriber-Only Benefit —
The Complete Vanity Fair Archive
•
EVERY ISSUE. EVERY PAGE. 1913 TO TODAY.