ART PARTY AND AUCTION To Benefit NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART www.nyaa.edu/nude TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2019 6:00 PM Sotheby’s 1334 York Avenue New York Academy of Art’s Annual Take Home a Nude® art party and auction will take place on Tuesday, October 15 at Sotheby’s and will honor painter Dana Schutz. This year’s Event Chairs are Suzanne & Bob Cochran, Andrew & Suzi Cohen and Petzel Gallery. Schutz is one of the most prominent figurative artists of our time and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Cleveland Art Museum, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver and the Miami Art Museum. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. The evening begins with a silent and live auction of over 150 artworks (both nudes and otherwise!), featuring Will Cotton, Sante D’Orazio, Tracey Emin, Damian Loeb, Raymond Pettibon, Pablo Picasso, Cindy Sherman, Jonas Wood and Dustin Yellin. Following the auction, guests will enjoy a dinner from sponsor Sant Ambroeus. Online bidding begins on September 27 on Paddle8.com, ending at 12 pm on October 9. All bids will be transferred to the live event at the start of the evening. Now in its 28th year, Take Home a Nude® has become one of the most anticipated evenings on the New York social calendar, bringing together over 800 guests from the worlds of media, business, fashion and the arts to raise over $1 million for programming and scholarships for the Academy’s roster of talented artists. Take Home a Nude® is generously sponsored by Sotheby’s, Sant Ambroeus, and Cadogan Tate Fine Art along with support from 108 Leonard, Langlois-Chateau, Paddle8, Ozymandias Wines, VOSS Artesian Water and William Grant & Sons. NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART Founded in 1982 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol, the New York Academy of Art is an educational and cultural institution that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. The Academy believes that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision. Academy students are taught traditional methods and techniques and encouraged to use these skills to make vital contemporary art. Through major exhibitions, a lively speaker series, and an ambitious educational program, the Academy serves as a creative and intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled, conceptually aware figurative and representational art. Angharad Coates, New York Academy of Art Director of Communications [email protected] 212.842.5975.