Art, Dancing and a Cat Nap: The Whitney Museum's Groundbreakers Art Party

It's hard to say whether it was the abundance of Belvedere Vodka cocktails or just a much needed rest after long stretch of dancing, but by the end of the Whitney Museum's Groundbreakers Art Party night, we spotted legendary art critic and bon vivant Anthony Haden-Guest taking a cat nap in the middle of the venue's entry way. The revelry was in honor of the official groundbreaking ceremony that took place earlier in the day for the museum's downtown Renzo Piano-designed building. Hosted by the Whitney Contemporaries with Co-Chairs Amar'e Stoudemire, Shala Monroque and Eddie Borgo, the party was held in the sprawling new event space Highline Stages.

The invite indicated "downtown dressed up," which yesterday meant a red crushed velvet skintight dress, a kimono topped with black widow's veil and fuchsia skinny jeans -- and that was just the men. Guests, including Yigal Azrouel, Chadwick Bell, Derek Blasberg, Jen Brill, Hannah Bronfman, China Chow, Lisa De Kooning, Carter Foster, Kathy Grayson, Prabal Gurung, Natalie Joos, Kate Lanphear, Johan Lindeberg, Rebecca Minkoff, Will Cotton, Evan Gruziz, Liz Magic Laser, Casey Neistat, Kembra Pfahler and Max Snow danced to the sounds of DJ Harley Viera Newton, Slater Bradley and his doppelganger Ben Brock, while others bid on artwork with proceeds benefiting the Whitney's Independent Study Program.