Richard Serra’s “P&E XVII” 2007 litho crayon on Mylar will be one of many works available at Brooklyn Rail auction
Visual Arts Gallery at the School of Visual Arts
601 West 26th St., fifteenth floor
February 17-19, $25 admission, 12 noon – 6:00 pm
Auction February 19, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
718-349-8427
www.brooklynrail.org/auction
Phong Bui, publisher of the free arts paper The Brooklyn Rail, refers to the nonprofit print publication as “absurdly impractical,” noting that “what we’re doing as a collective is entirely removed from any pragmatic notion of supply and demand.” With that in mind, Bui is curating a fundraiser in honor of the Rail’s recent tenth anniversary. Taking place over the next three days at SVA’s Visual Arts Gallery in Chelsea, the works will be on view through Thursday through Saturday from 12 noon to 6:00, after which a live silent auction will be held Saturday night. Admission to the gallery is $25; among the participating artists with works for sale — and it’s quite an impressive list — are Marina Abramovic, Lynda Benglis, Joe Bradley, Paul Chan, Maria Elena Gonzales, Philip Guston, Alfredo Jaar, Alex Katz, Robert Mangold, Shirin Neshat, Philip Pearlstein, Will Ryman, Charles Seliger, Richard Serra, Ben Shahn, Joel Shapiro, Kiki Smith, Mark di Suvero, Terry Winters, and Lisa Yuskavage.