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Beating the drum for a
silent auction
It's that time of year again: pumpkins in the store windows, candles
in the pumpkins, and artists giving away their work to benefit worthy
causes and beloved institutions.
Joanne Baldinger,
watercolor
The New York Studio School
marks its 40th anniversary with a bumper silent auction at its annual
benefit gala. They are honoring sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, philanthropists
Dr. Robert and Jane Carroll, painter Helen Frankenthaler and art critic
Robert Hughes. The auction features an amazing roster of the great and
the good. Over ninety artists are taking part: joining the artist honorees
are Joanne Baldinger [pictured], Louise Bourgeois, Charles Cajori, Christo,
Pamela Crimmins, Lois Dickson, Rackstraw Downes, Garth Evans, Julie
Heffernan, Eric Holzman, James Hyde, Bill Jensen, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz,
Alain Kirili, Robert Mangold, Melissa Meyer, Catherine Murphy, Graham
Nickson, Thomas Nozkowski, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Paul Resika, Robert
Ryman, Sean Scully, Ena Swansea, William Tucker, and Tom Wesselmann.
Works have also been donated by collectors and heirs of Rosemarie Beck,
Philip Guston, Andrew Forge, Mercedes Matter and Henry Moore.
www.nyss.org/benefit2004.
Beat Bush and Kerry Home
a Masterpiece
Cecily Brown Study
after An Election by William Hogarth 2004
4 color lithograph, 16 1/4” x 13 1/2”
This year, of course, there's a momentuous, historical extra cause to
sponsor: saving civilization from George Bush. There have been numerous
artworld parties, organized or spontaneous, to fundraise for Democratic
candidates at all levels of federal, state and local election. Ten high-minded
liberals have now formed "Artists Coming Together" to produce
a portfolio of lithographs and screenprints, each offered as a gift
for a donation of $1000: They are John Baldessari, Frank Gehry, Jasper
Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Elizabeth Murray, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha,
Susan Rothenberg, Richard Serra, who has donated a bonus print, and
the baby in the august crowd, Cecily Brown, pictured above. There's
to be a launch October 16 at Matthew Marks Gallery which is likely to
be a bunfight of Hogarthian proportions.
www.act4victory.org/art
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Lawrence
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