Seven Bites Before the Met Gala

The Curator’s Brief · No. 1: Searchlight, AXPONA, the Bezos sponsorship, the agency split, the LACC, the catering reset. Plus fifty flops for your coffee.

1. Searchlight took co-control of CloserStill. Friday, May 1. Searchlight Capital Partners, the New York and London private equity firm with roughly $18 billion under management, agreed to invest in CloserStill Media alongside Providence Equity, taking co-control of the London-based B2B events platform.