Show Media, the company that sells advertising on the top of New York City taxis, is giving back to the city—and making up for its slowest month—by featuring work by Chuck Close and Kehinde Wiley. Good stuff!

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The best thing about this apartment at the crumbling, scandal-plagued Plaza? The furniture and Kate Moss portrait by Chuck Close, of course! Unfortunately, your $13.75 million (or $35,000 a month) only buys you the apartment, not the furnishings. Daydreaming is still free, though; you can look at a few more pics of this primo pad after the jump. [Luxist]

The Tribeca Film Institute hosted a benefit screening for the Quantum of Solace last night, which was followed by an afterparty at Tavern on the Green. Attendees included Daniel Craig, Becki Newton, Chris Diamantopoulos, Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower, Craig Hatkoff and Jane Rosenthal, Julia Stiles, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Jeffrey Wright, Debra Messing, Andre Balazs, Andrew Saffir and Daniel Benedict, Hoda Kotb, Jill Stuart, John Sykes, Judy McGrath, Howard Stringer, Rob Wiesenthal, Liya Kebede, Stewart Rahr, Molly Sims, and Serena Altschul. [PMc, Wireimage, GoaG]

Artist Chuck Close and his wife Leslie have paid $5.95 million for a ninth-floor apartment at 48 Bond Street, the 11-story Noho building designed by Deborah Berke. The three-bedroom, full-floor pad features an eat-in kitchen, walnut floors, library, and 800-square-foot terrace. (Close also owns a 2,500-square foot apartment at 20 Bond.) Photos and a floorplan of Close's latest purchase after the jump.

Close is a superstar artist known for his larger-than-life portraits of art-world figures and his improbable comeback from medical calamity.