White Columns turns 40, everybody comes

blog_gallery_goround.jpgDavid Byrne and Cindy Sherman were among the downtown luminaries who attended Saturday night's 40th anniversary benefit auction for White Columns, the alternative exhibition space originally founded as a "socialist art system" by Jeffrey Lew and Gordon Matta-Clark. Guests bid on pieces including a drawing by Elizabeth Peyton, an oil painting by Peter Doig and a signed Richard Prince poster, and by the night's end the non-profit had raised more than $300,000 towards its programs and services for artists.

blog_wca_01.jpgblog_wca_02.jpgWhite Columns's Amie Scally and Ryan Evans

blog_wca_03.jpgblog_wca_04.jpgAnne Collier

blog_wca_06.jpgblog_wca_07.jpgGavin Brown and Elizabeth Peyton

blog_wca_08.jpgPhillip Seymour Hoffman (2009) by Mathew Cerletty

blog_wca_09.jpgblog_wca_10.jpgblog_wca_14.jpgWhite Columns Director Matthew Higgs.

And below, some shots from the exhibition's kickoff party in late April.

blog_wcp_02.jpgblog_wcp_03.jpgKai Kuhne, Rita Ackermann and Aurel Schmidt

blog_wcp_05.jpgMarilyn Minter

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Photos by Ryan James MacFarland.

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By W Magazine
May 20, 2009

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