New Museum ground floor space
231 Bowery between Stanton & Rivington Sts.
Sunday, December 14, free, 1:00 – 6:00
www.bowery.org
www.newmuseum.org
For 135 years, the Bowery Mission has been helping hungry and homeless New Yorkers. Now you can help the Bowery Mission by bidding at the first annual L.E.S. Art Drive, a benefit auction for the nonprofit organization whose stated goal is “to be the most effective provider of compassionate care and life transformation for hurting people in New York City.” On Sunday, December 14, the mission’s neighbor, the New Museum will host a fundraising silent auction in its ground-floor space at 231 Bowery from 1:00 to 6:00. Curated by Karline Moeller of the Cy Twombly Foundation, the auction will feature works from $450 to $10,000 donated by more than three dozen Lower East Side galleries and individual artists, including Sperone Westwater (Malcolm Morley), gallery nine5 (Steve Ellis, Jessica Lichtenstein), Patrick McMullan, LMAKprojects (Joan van Barneveld), Robert Aitchison, Invisible-Exports (Philip von Zweck), Maxwell Snow, Wallplay (Luca Chiriani), Rob Wynn, the Keith Haring Foundation (Shepard Fairey), and Cindy Rucker Gallery (Charles Dunn). (You can get a sneak peek at the art here.) In addition, there will be a photography exhibit inside the mission itself, “Through My Lens,” consisting of pictures taken by members of the marginalized local community. Every little bit helps; the Bowery Mission is estimating that a complete Christmas dinner for twelve people costs a mere $19.08 this year.