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Art world stumps up for Hillary

Dan Duray
11 September 2016
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One Tesla sports car stood out among the black SUVs lining the block on 21st Street between 10th and 11th avenues on 12 September as muckety-mucks gathered at the Gagosian Gallery for a Hillary Clinton fundraiser. Titled Art For Hillary, the event featured an auction arranged by Simon de Pury with some 50 works by the likes of Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, Todd Eberle, Joyce Pensato and Cindy Sherman, all in the five-figure range. A tiger print by Robert Longo sold for $80,000 and a Roy Lichtenstein work went for a whopping $220,000. Nothing like a little art to go with your Trump anxiety. Outside, attendees tried to do the math on just how much was raised. Tickets cost $1,000, “and that’s all just cash,” one banker-looking type said, “so you have to figure…” The buyers of higher-level tickets received a Jeff Koons gazing ball print that incorporates the Mona Lisa (presumably because da Vinci was the first person to be #WithHer). Larry Gagosian has donated to Republican candidates George W. Bush and Mitt Romney in the past, but this year seems less impressed with the GOP nominee. The event drew the likes of Dominique Lévy, Clifford Ross, Brice Marden and Yvonne Force Villareal. But for all the money raised, the event was fairly dressed-down. The evening was rounded out by a speech by Chelsea Clinton, who wore a t-shirt bearing the legend MAKE HERSTORY.

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