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subscribe to style file blog via RSSartwalk co-chair alec baldwin won’t jinx election with champagne purchase
November 4, 2008 3:27 pm
The tributee was Robert Rauschenberg, and the evening’s beneficiary was the Coalition for the Homeless, but at last night’s Richard Gere and Carey Lowell-hosted Artwalk auction, topic A on everyone’s mind was the election. Julie Gilhart, for example, had just returned from a canvassing mission in Ohio, and as for “honored guest” Alec Baldwin, (seen here with Kayce Freed Jennings) well, he has some famously strong opinions on the subject of who should be the next president, SNL hobnobbing with Sarah Palin aside. After the live auction slate of works by artists such as Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, and Dennis Oppenheim had passed the gavel, Baldwin confessed to wavering between optimism about the election’s outcome and calculated cynicism. “I haven’t bought any Champagne yet,” Baldwin noted. “I’m trying not to set myself up for disappointment. I mean, you just never know how these things are going to go.” Perhaps in an effort to keep his mind off matters political, Baldwin went ahead and bid on a couple of photographs. Not bidding, but considering doing so, was Emma Snowdon-Jones, and her cheerfully apolitical delight in Arne Svenson’s Stray #4 set a good example for all the attendees on pre-ballot tenterhooks. “I don’t know, I just like it,” she said of Svenson’s photo. “It’s like kitty porn. I think if I had that in my house, I’d just laugh every day.” No matter who’s president.
tags: Alec Baldwin, Artwalk, Coalition for the Homeless, Robert Rauschenberg
