A group of artists, writers, musicians and curators gathered at the Villa Lena hotel in Italy’s Tuscany region to celebrate the end of the MQBMBQ residency for Black queer artists. Photograph by Enea Arienti.
Jordan Anderson, the founder of the MQBMBQ residency, hosted friends and collaborators to toast a fruitful summer in the Italian countryside.
The chef Andy Baraghani hosted a dinner with friends at the home of his partner, Keith Pollock, near Bellport, Long Island. Photograph by Maegan Gindi.
The chef Andy Baraghani took a break from his cookbook tour to share some of the dishes featured in its pages with friends.
As dinner wound down, guests mingled or headed toward the dance floor, where Italian hits were played until late into the night. Photograph by Carmen Colombo.
For a meal that she organised in Milan, the designer Isabel Wilkinson Schor brought silverware and several serving dishes from her home in New York. Photograph by Carmen Colombo.
On a warm summer evening, the designer Isabel Wilkinson Schor hosted an event celebrating both the one-year anniversary of her line, Attersee, and a recent collaboration.
At a party in Jaipur, India, the “grazing table,” set with vegetarian fare on one side and nonvegetarian on the other, was covered in a tablecloth that had been hand-painted with an orange motif especially for the occasion. Photograph by Deepti Asthana.
Before competing at the World Cup of shooting in Lima, Peru, the former Olympian Shagun Chowdhary gathered friends for a night of dancing at her family farm.
Clockwise from top left, the creative adviser and activist Brooke Williams; her daughter, Ada; Williams’s husband, the consultant Josh Liberson; and the family’s friend the artist and jewelry designer Jill Platner enjoying a seafood feast cooked by Liberson. Photograph by Séan Alonzo Harris.
A family celebrated the arrival of a special artwork at their home by inviting its maker to stay — and cooking her an oceanside dinner.
A group gathered for a dinner co-hosted by the events specialist Cathleen O’Neil and the chef Feisal Lagos in the backyard of O’Neil’s apartment building in Brooklyn. Photograph by DeSean McClinton-Holland.
Cathleen O’Neil and Feisal Lagos, two friends who met in the New York events industry, have started a vibrant, collaborative meal series of their own.
“I want to broaden the definition of what it means to be from a place,” said Wu, “and to think about community in terms of shared longing.” Photograph by Ana Topoleanu.
At a brunch in Oaxaca, Mexico, hosted by the curator Su Wu, tostadas and tomatoes cooking on a comal. Photograph by Ana Topoleanu.
Ahead of the opening of an exhibition of work by — and inspired by — Ana Mendieta, the curator Su Wu gathered friends for a comal-cooked brunch prepared by the chef Thalia Barrios Garcia.
The event planner and magazine founder Amber Mayfield invited friends to a picnic in Manhattan’s Central Park. Photograph by Lelanie Foster.
To celebrate Black life and leisure, Amber Mayfield hosted an outdoor potluck for friends and fellow foodies.
On the edge of a willow field beside Benoît Rauzy and Anthony Watson’s 18th-century home in Brittany, a table set for a festive lunch. Photography by Roland Beaufre.
Benoît Rauzy and Anthony Watson, the founders of the design studio Atelier Vime, celebrated a long-awaited reunion with friends at their home in the French countryside.
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A group of artists, writers, musicians and curators gathered at the Villa Lena hotel in Italy’s Tuscany region to celebrate the end of the MQBMBQ residency for Black queer artists. Photograph by Enea Arienti. 
