Chanel Tribeca Artists Dinner Plays Knicks Game for Teyana Taylor, Robert De Niro, Keke Palmer & more.

“Knicks in four!” cheered Teyana Taylor as she made her way down the red carpet. The actor’s time at the Chanel Artists Dinner would be brief: she was in fact headed to the game, and after making the rounds at the party would be doing an outfit change in a sprinter van en route to Madison Square Garden.

As with the rest of New York City currently, the Knicks were all anyone could talk about on Monday at the annual event, now in its 19th year. Tribeca Festival’s Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal welcomed a group to Tribeca Grill, owned by De Niro, which closed in 2025 and will be revived by Major Food Group in 2027. Monday’s dinner was the first event to be held in the new Tribeca Grill iteration.   

Keke Palmer, Sarah Pidgeon, Ayo Edebiri, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Katie Holmes, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Olivia Munn and John Mulaney, Sofia Coppola, Molly Gordon, Bill Skarsgård, Cole Escola, Owen Thiele, Finneas and Claudia Sulewski, Lux Pascal, Seth Meyers, Camila Morrone, Grace Gummer, Rashida Jones, Rosie Perez, Whitney Peak, Email Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola, Alex Consani, Anok Yai, Chase Sui Wonders, Inde Navarrette, Christy Turlington Burns and Edward Burns, Craig McDean and more all came out for the event, which celebrates visual artists and filmmakers. 

Pidgeon has been attending Chanel Tribeca events long before she played Carolyn Bessette and was a Broadway star in “Stereophonic.” The actress was at home for this year’s Tony Awards, which were held the previous night. 

“I ordered some food and sat on my couch and folded laundry and watched it,” Pidgeon said. “Seeing Pink come down in her cables was really cool. I thought Joshua Henry’s speech was really, really beautiful. I was able to see him and my friend Ben Levi Ross in ‘Ragtime’ and that was just one of the favorite things I’ve seen on stage this year,” she added. “I was lucky enough to go a few years back and to be in that room, and the theater community is one that I am so lucky to be a part of and exactly that, it feels like a community. There’s so much camaraderie in it and it really takes a village to put on a play. And  I think just even watching it from home, you could feel that energy.”

After an extremely busy 2026 with the promotion of “Love Story,” Pidgeon is excited to sit put and be in New York. 

“Right now I am really enjoying New York as it’s warming up. That storm Saturday was insane,” she said. “I was like, is there a trash can going sideways? But I also feel like it’s very representative of the energy that’s going to be happening this summer. Just like things changing in an instant, super high-intensity winds. We’ll take it.” 

Taylor was also feeling the love for New York, her hometown.

“I’m directing my first feature film in late July, so this whole summer I will be in New York. It’s taking place in Harlem. That’s why I’m like this is a crazy year for New York,” Taylor said. “We’re all doing it. We’re all rising. We’re all evolving, and this is just really amazing. You know what I’m saying? I bought the Golden Globe home to New York. They ‘bout to bring that championship home. You understand how much gold New York got in it? You might as well call us the gold members.” 

Between courses De Niro gave a surprise toast to Rosenthal to mark 25 years of the Tribeca Festival, which was followed by a Champagne toast. As guests settled in at their tables, several were quick to spot the TVs on the walls — yes, the Knicks game would be on view, rest assured. Hats were given out, and by the time the dessert came, complete with cocktail napkins with the Chanel logo embroidered in Knicks colors, the dinner had turned into a full-on watch party.