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ARTrageous

Posted May 16, 2009

This week's New York social moment (uptown of course) was the ARTrageous auction at Cipriani's. Guests including Jeff Koons and Peter Beard jostled for space at the bar as Swide ordered a cocktail and got the lowdown on the evening.

Yes, there was definitely art there; and, one imagines, the final champagne bill was nothing shy of utterly ***rageous. But despite the provocative title, it’s a safe bet that none amongst the assembled chattering classes were actually scandalized by any of the art on display at this year’s annual ARTrageous gala and auction.

And all the better, surely, as the proceeds were to benefit the Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families charity, not fund a new dadaist cultural insurrection.

The artist names, to be sure, were as boldfaced as boldfaced can be, from Haring to Yoko to Bleckner to Peter Beard and Jeff Koons, who we jostled with for space at the bar, before an impromptu rendezvous with our old pals Alex and Simon from Real Housewives of New York.

Our faves were Alvin Booth’s cryptic, ostensibly Man Ray referencing gelatin silver print (titled, um, "Untitled"), Ryszard Horowitz’s eerie, gothic mise-en-scene print "Atelier", and Yasmia Alaoui and Marco Guerra’s mixed media work "Yasco #11", an ethereal, sexually charged, and sort of reverse-anthropomorphic study in body modification.

As ever though, the priceless spectacle of relentless art schmoozers, sozzled poshies, and the leggy, awkwardly-Westernizing daughters of Perestroika, mingling amidst the quasi-Renaissance extravagance of Cipriani Wall Street, made for a more-Fellini-than-Fellini evening of social debauchery (oh, and culture). It felt not unlike fiddling while Rome (well, Citibank and Baghdad) burns, but all in the name of a good cause…sweetie.

Ken Scrudato

 

Source & Photo Credit: www.artrageous.org

 

TAGS: artrageous jeff koons peter beard art cipriani new york edwin gould services fellini auction

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