So. Yesterday, after checking out Steve Cohen’s bitches (on display starting today at Sotheby’s), we popped into the exhibit-adjacent cafe for an iced coffee. There were a bunch of signs noting that “due to the show on the tenth floor, there will be no use of the Panini grill for the next two weeks.” We didn’t think much of it until this morning, after receiving a little more color on the subject, courtesy of a grilled cheese-seeker. After being denied her snack of choice, she was told, “I’m sorry, Mr. Cohen does not want the sandwich press used on the same floor as his paintings.”
We’re failing to wrap our minds around the reasoning behind this. We can understand not wanting any food or drink near his $450 million worth of pictures, but all other items are still available (coffee, soda, soup– prepared on-site not packaged, desserts, salads, yogurt, etc). Why are delicious pressed sandwiches getting a bad rap in the big guy’s book? Does this date back to some sort of bad experience involving *someone* getting crumbs on the de Kooning? Whoever has relevant information should get in touch a-sap (or we could just cut the crap and you could tell me yourself, Mr. Zamboni. I don’t bite).
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Why do all HF managers have OCD?
Ha. But there are bathrooms on the same floor. Ha.
in cars, they used to force him to sit “bitch” as a (corpulent, tortured) kid
People take shots of the “best and brightest” all the time. Old news. It even happened to me when I worked at Motherrock.
steve@4- this isn’t a shot, it’s a legit question.
@4 go sell crazy somewhere else, we’re all stocked up here.
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My guess is he doesn’t like vaporized grease all up in his shiz
He doesn’t want the greasy steam near his artwork.
And he is lactose intolerant.
@10- then why are they still allowed to make soup on the same floor?
The paninis clearly weren’t kosher.
@10, I assure you there is no grease in “steam”
@13- yes.
@10- there is no grease in steam. the only grease would come directly from the sandwich, if they were being rubbed up against the paintings, in which case, wouldn’t you outlaw ALL food in their general vicinity?
there’s grease in steam – ask any person behind a deep fryer.
@15 Who rubs food on a painting? Or who rubs their hands on a painting?
@17- are you an idiot? the point was that while there is grease IN a panini, there’s no grease in the steam created while making one, and therefore the only way the paintings would be affected by the grease is if they were rubbed directly on the paintings (you were supposed to get realize that *that would never happen* without me having to actually write it out).
People from Long Island or Queens do not belong in CT.
@19- thanks for those two cents.
Too steamy, didn’t grease
Funniest comments in months.
#19 is a tool.
Must be a slow news day. Anyhow, this guy is a fat slob, who cares about him? Hes probably rifling down a large pie today to celebrate the SPX jumpin 26 handles.
@23– “who cares about him?” who cares? WHO CARES? WHO CARES ABOUT STEVE COHEN? Buy a fuckin’ clue.
Yes 24, 23 here. Who gives a fat hairy crap about this guy? Alan Howard is the man
C’mon, Bess, you’ve got this all backwards. “I’m sorry, Mr. Cohen does not want the sandwich press used on the same floor as his paintings”….BY OTHER PEOPLE. He has commandeered the sandwich grill and is getting his panini on in some private office away from the judging eyes of the artsy fartsy collector crowd.
@18: Panini are grilled, not steamed. While I agree @10 is an idiot for not knowing what constitutes steam, I think his intent was that the vaporization of lipids resulting from application of direct head to delicious bread could leave undesirable residue on Stevie’s collection o’ titties.
@27- assuming that the cafe isn’t actually IN THE SAME ROOM as the paintings, but only on the same floor, do you really think that’s a risk? also, re the soup, which it’s noted is prepared there, and not packaged, wouldn’t that then pose a similar potential problem?
Maybe he’s doing Atkins and doesn’t want the temptation?
Grease me up woman, I’m going in.
Panninis envy?
@17
“Or who rubs their hands on a painting?”
Clearly you didn’t read Bess’s first post on the paintings…