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Artists Create Dog Bowls To Benefit Pet Charity

Filed under: Auctions, Pets, Art, Charity

Your dog can have his dinner in a work of art. David Hockney and other noted artists have decorated simple white bowls to benefit a Los Angeles pet charity. The distinctive bowls will go up for auction on November 23 at Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The bowls are by David Hockney, Charles Arnoldi, Ross Bleckner, Robert Longo and Edward Ruscha and Kenny Scharf and are each estimated at $2,500 to $3,500. Proceeds from the simultaneous auctions will benefit PAWS/LA, a group helps low-income seniors and those disabled by life-threatening illnesses keep and care for their pets. It provides free veterinary care, pet food and supplies, vaccinations, grooming, foster homes for more than 2,500 pets.

Gallery: Dog Bowls at Bonhams

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RSVIP: Parrish Museum Honors Beth DeWoody, a Latter Day "Peggy Guggenheim"

by Jeffrey Slonim (RSS feed) —

Unlike the legendary art patroness Peggy Guggenheim, Manhattan real estate family scion, Beth Rudin DeWoody may not have rebuilt a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice, where lions once roamed, and Jackson Pollock didn't urinate in her fireplace, but DeWoody has packed three sizable domiciles from Southamton, New York to West Palm Beach, Florida and likely a great deal of storage with the quirky highlights of contemporary art.

On July 10, DeWoody and the world famous painter Ross Bleckner were honored at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York, during the annual Parrish Midsummer fete.

"She's so open-minded," said Carlton DeWoody, Beth's son, like his father, Beth's first husband Jim DeWoody, a gifted artist. "That had a big impact on me growing up."

At the entrance to DeWoody's Southampton cottage, a key site in the original Southampton Art Colony, hangs a deer trophy head in an S&M-style leather hood that zips up the side. Lift a small magnifying glass on a book, as Luxist did on a previous visit, and a tiny man magically appears as a holograph, projected in 3-D.

"Beth is my partner in crime," offered designer Richard Mishaan with gusto, "my personal Auntie Mame. She has educated me, guided me into buying some of the best pieces I have, like a Peter Dayton surfboard last week."

"She's the Peggy Guggenheim of our time," pronounced Debbie Bancroft, chair of the tony Southampton society benefit, sporting a dress made with python skins for Calypso. "Everyone loves Beth and Ross . . . and there is nothing like having beloved honorees."

"She is the most welcoming person, with the most eclectic taste in friends, art, and furniture," added artful party photographer Patrick McMullan.

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Truman Capote's Sagaponack Home, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

When a listing says "hear the ocean" that means only one thing, you can't see it from every angle. This property in Sagaponack, New York was once the home of author Truman Capote. The nearly four-acre property went on sale last year. Capote lived here for 23 years prior to his death in 1984. Capote wrote "In Cold Blood" while living in this house. The NY Observer reported last year that Capote bequeathed the property to his partner, Jack Dunphy. When Dunphy died in 1992, the house was passed on to the Nature Conservancy, which then sold it to artist Ross Bleckner in 1993 for $800,000.Bleckner restored the home, enlarged the main house and added a 1,900 square-foot studio, a two-bedroom guesthouse, an outdoor pool and garage. The charming retreat is pretty modest compared to some of the homes surrounding it. The main house is open and mid-century modern with simple details. An upstairs bedroom offers a view of the ocean in the distance. The look of the property recalls the days when this area was more of an earthy retreat for artists and writers than for the wealthy and famous. It has been listed for one year at $14.6 million.

Gallery: Truman Capote's Hamptons Home