New York Times

Liz Goldwyn, wearing her signature red lipstick, at a bookstore in Los Angeles. Photographed by Emily Berl for The New York Times

The Gala in the Garden, a benefit given every October by the Hammer Museum here, draws a reliably motley cross section of this city’s art, fashion and film tribes. While those contingents mingled last fall on the museum’s third-floor balcony with some of the stiffness of the jocks, brains and beauties mixing at a high school dance, one guest navigated the crowd as effortlessly as a prom queen…  . . . READ MORE