Whitebox Art Center at SELECT Fair
May 4, 2015
The Last Party: The Influence of New York’s Club Culture: Mid 70s – Early 90s
June 13, 2015
WhiteBox Benefit Art Auction
&
WhiteBox and Richard J. Massey Foundation
Arts and Humanities Award
Honoring
Karen Finley
Tuesday, June 23rd 2015 | 6:30-9pm
Your ticket purchase(s) will also be credited to your auction bidding and part of a raffle
of prizes including a work by Roumlo Sans.
To purchase call 212.714.2347
WhiteBox and the Richard J. Massey Foundation will present their 3rd Arts and Humanities Award to performance artist Karen Finley. The Arts and Humanities Award honors an artist whose work raises social and political conscience. Previous recipients are Martha Wilson and Ai Weiwei. Martha will be in character of “Tipper Gore” to present Karen with the WhiteBox and the Richard J. Massey Foundation 3rd Arts and Humanities Award. The award is an original commissioned piece by Tim Rollins and K.O.S.
The evening will begin with the WhiteBox Benefit Art Auction sponsored by artnet. Proceeds raised will support WhiteBox’s 2015–16 programming. The auction will open for online bidding on June 16 and close the evening of June 23.
Auctioning works by:
Louise Fishman, John Cale, Ivan Navarro, William Coupon, Ron Galella, David Gamble, Eduardo Gil, Leon Golub, Roberto Juarez, Komar & Melamid, Xu Bing, The Blue Noses, Anton Perich, Andres Serrano, GT Pellizzi and Lawrence Weiner amongst others.
Benefit Auction Committee
Richard J. Massey | Martha Wilson | Hon. Steven Honigman | Louise Fishman
Claudia Baez | Alberto Isequilla | Nemo Librizzi | Martin C. Liu | David Emanuel
Maria Pessino | Jack Hanley | William Holman | Brian Whiteley | Kevin Alexander
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