Openings & Parties: The Ninth Annual BAMart Silent Auction at The Hole
Last night The Hole hosted the opening party for the Ninth Annual BAMart Silent Auction. Christos Katsiaouni was there to capture the scene.
Openings & Parties: Printed Matter Sandy Benefit Relief Auction Preview Reception
Hurricane Sandy dumped six feet of water into the basement storage of Printed Matter, resulting in a loss of over 9,000 books. To help ease the cost of repair and enhancement of their storage, a benefit auction and selling exhibition is currently taking place at the Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space. Christos Katsiaouni was in house this past Thursday to document some of the attendees of the art preview.
Under The Influence
A selection of choice lots from the upcoming auction at Phillips
A Bird Costume Designed by Maurice Sendak
Bid on this and loads of other weird stuff as the New York City Opera auctions off the contents of its warehouse.
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Printables
Bones of Contention by Paige Williams
The Dash Snow Initiative
An art auction benefitting BGR, an after school program in NYC’s Lower East Side, operated by the Henry Street Settlement.
Some highlights, above.
How High Will This One Go?
The $5,000-7,000 estimate that this piece carries just seems waaaaaay too low.
Natadora by Margaret Kilgallen
Up for auction through Doyle New York
One-of-a-Kind Half Cabs
Steve Caballero put together this auction of custom Half Cabs to benefit ASkate, a non-profit organization that introduces autistic children to skateboarding. Artists include Caballero, Shepard Fairey, Chris Pastras, Andy Howell, Jimbo Phillips and many others.
Vietnam-Era Zippos
This collection was compiled by American artist Bradford Edwards on-site in Vietnam over several years in the 90s. It recently sold at auction for $35,250.00.
via, jackspade
$675,250
The amount paid at auction for Todd McFarlane’s cover art to “Amazing Spider-Man” no. 328 from 1990. It is now the expensive piece of original American comic art ever purchased.
Good Wood Skateboard Art Exhibition
There are a bunch of familiar names in this auction benefitting Power House Productions Ride It Sculpture Park in Detroit.
Why Haven’t Rappers Started Collecting Dinosaurs?
Just curious. It seems like the most obvious display of money with the hint of sophistication. Not everyone understands art, just like not everyone gets classic cars, but everyone knows dinosaurs.
Anyway, there’s a complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar from the Late Cretaceous era in Central Asia up for auction, and whoever has the cash and the space should buy it.
Ayrton Senna’s 1984 Brazil Grand Prix Steering Wheel
If you’ve never seen the documentary Senna, you should. Then you’ll understand why this steering wheel up for auction is amazing, and expected to sell for over $20,000.
