Off To JFK Without A Ticket

A good while back I swore I would never fly out of JFK Airport ever again. Coming from Jersey it was only a hassle. Spending fifty bucks more to fly out of Newark was still a better value when you consider the time and money lost on the ground getting to and from Kennedy.

But now this evening I will be crawling along the Belt in the usual slow trek to JFK. I have no plane ticket, I am not dropping anyone off for a flight or even collecting any recently arrived traveling friend. For the first time ever I am off to an airport for a party.

Tonight Vanity Fair is hosting a black-tie gala celebrating art and the architecture of old TWA Terminal 5.

Some poser site has a few details about the gathering.

Airport terminals have taken a bad rap in recent years. But this will soon change, if only temporarily, thanks to Terminal 5, an ambitious project promising to bring some jet-set allure back to New York's JFK airport. For four months starting October 1, the TWA terminal, Eero Saarinen's soaring modernist masterpiece, will be the hemisphere's most important destination for art lovers as a crew of intercontinental contemporary artists takes over the entire building—including luggage carousels and ticket counters—to present large-scale, site-specific works. But it doesn't end there. With the participation of Paris boutique Colette, the exhibition will boast the most unusual gift store on the globe, while an accompanying program titled "Arrivals" is packed with lectures, performances and projects by first-class names like Rem Koolhaas and Hussein Chalayan.

It all takes off with a black-tie pre-opening gala hosted by Vanity Fair where guests will be treated to works by Tom Sachs, Douglas Coupland, Tobias Wong, Jenny Holzer and Dan Graham, among others, on Wednesday, September 29, 7:00 pm - midnight. Two nights later is the official launch party, hosted by V Magazine, with plenty o' surprises, and that's all we're allowed to say.

Look here for a full party report soon.