An artist and photographer, Snow was the reigning bad boy of the downtown art scene until he died of a drug overdose in July 2009.

Wool became famous in the 1980s for his "word paintings." It's a cross between poetry and art, and you can't afford it.

A New York art world fixture since the 1980s, Schnabel is as well known for his relentless self-promotion as for his work as a painter, conceptual artist, and filmmaker.

Ingrao is an interior decorator and the proprietor of Ingrao Antiques and Fine Art on East 64th Street.

Hagan is an interior designer whose clients include Ron Perelman and Conan O'Brien.

McGinley is a photographer who takes snaps of young hipsters having sex and doing drugs, and makes uptown collectors feel "with it."

A longtime social fixture and the daughter of the late Henryk de Kwiatkowski, Lulu runs the fabric design company Lulu DK.

Tschumi is the brainy architect who formerly headed the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, and the man behind the highly conspicuous Lower East Side building, Blue.

Marino is an architect and interior designer who specializes in super-high-end retail spaces and super-high-end apartments.

One of the city's most prolific interior designers, Wolf is also the owner of the SoHo furniture and home accessories store VW Home.

The attention and controversy seeking Sachs is a contemporary artist best known for his Chanel-branded guillotine and Prada-branded toilet.

One of New York's veteran interior designers, Gomez has styled homes for New York notables for more than three decades.

O'Brien heads up interior design firm Aero Limited. He's also the owner of SoHo home furnishings shop Aero.

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Weinberg is the director of the Whitney, where he's taken on the task of trying to expand the museum in the face of hostile neighbors, cranky trustees, and touchy staff members.

Cappellazzo is the chairwoman of postwar and contemporary art development at Christie's.

The violin phenom and onetime child prodigy has become a bona fide classical music hottie.

Anastos is the founder of Whitney Contemporaries, a $500-a-year club that reels in the under-40 set in support of the Upper East Side museum.

An influential art expert, tastemaker, and former curator at the MoMA, Storr is dean of the Yale School of Art. He directed the 2007 Venice Biennale.

A longtime portrait photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders has become something of a celebrity taking pictures of celebrities.