Howard and Cindy Rachofsky, TWO x TWO Event Hosts, Kevin Robert Frost, amfAR CEO. All photographs by Kevin Tachman.
On Monday, September 19, Sotheby’s New York held a highlights preview of the art that will be auctioned off at TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art 2011 on October 22 in Dallas, TX. The annual event is in its 13th year and is hosted by Dallas-based collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky at the Richard Meier-designed Rachofsky House. The art auction benefits two institutions (hence the title): the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
Around 200 guests gathered in the 10th floor galleries of Sotheby’s New York to get a first look at highlights from the auction artwork donated by: Joshua Abelow, Isabel Albrecht, Polly Apfelbaum, Hernan Bas, Justin Beal, Frank Benson, Anna Betbeze, William Betts, Steven Bindernagel, Sean Bluechel, Matthew Brannon, Sascha Braunig, Christopher Brown, James Lee Byars, Scott Calhoun, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Dan Colen, Andy Collins, Nigel Cooke, Justin Cooper, Marti Cormand, Tony Cragg, Martin Creed, Cynthia Daignault, Annabel Daou, Lynn Davis, TM Davy, Michael DeLucia, Marc Dennis, Rackstraw Downes, Leonardo Drew, Carroll Dunham, Sam Durant, Tim Eitel, Matias Faldbakken, Oana Farcas, Thomas Flechtner, Roland Flexner, Mark Flood, Brendan Fowler, Erik Frydenborg, John Gerrard, Alexander Gorlizki, Antony Gormley, Mark Grotjahn, Terry Haggerty, Tim Hailand, Robert Heinecken, Jim Hodges, Tony Horton, Ryan Humphrey, Sergej Jensen, Yael Kanarek, Matt Keegan, Alisha Kerlin, Ai Kijima, Klara Kristalova, Liz Larner, Annette Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Liza Lou, Catherine MacMahon, Florian Maier-Aichen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Liz Markus, Cameron Martin, Nick Mauss, Keith Mayerson, Charles Mayton, Stefana McClure, Ritsue Mishima, Donald Moffett, Frank Moore, Sam Moyer, Carter Mull, Yuko Murata, Hitoshi Nomura, William J. O’Brien, Rachel Owens, Trevor Paglen, Anthony Pearson, Jaume Plensa, John Pomara, Liliana Porter, Liliana Porter, Alex Prager, Zak Prekop, Rob Pruitt, Eileen Quinlan, Ged Quinn, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Noam Rappaport, Brion Nuda Rosch, Andrea Rosenberg, Eva Rothschild, Heather Rowe, Stefan Sandner, Judith Seligson, Brian Sharp, Arlene Shechet, Jay Shinn Ken Solomon, Christiana Soulou, Thomas Struth, Jiro Takamatsu, Cheyney Thompson, Anthony Titus, Tatiana Trouvé, Lane Twitchell, Fredrik Værslev, Lesley Vance, Kara Walker, Phoebe Washburn, Andro Wekua, Richard Wentworth, Hannah Wilke, Jason Willaford, Jesse Willenbring, Michael Williams, Sean Wrenn, Ervin Wurm and Billy Zinser.
Whitewall’s fall 2011 issue, out later this week, includes a feature on Dallas’ TWO x TWO event including an interview with this year’s honoree artist Mark Grotjahn, collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky, amfAR CEO Kevin Frost, amfAR Chairman Kenneth Cole, and the Dallas Museum of Art’s Contemporary Art Curator Jeffrey Grove.
Cindy Rachofsky, TWO x TWO Event Host, Melissa Meeks, TWO x TWO Director.
Eliza Osborne, Sotheby's, Howard Rachofsky, Anthony Grant, Sotheby's.
Jamie Niven, Sotheby's, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky.
Gary Tigges and Cyrus Hadjesmaili.
Thakoon (also in Whitewall's fall 2011 issue), Cindy Rachofsky.
Kate and Andy Spade, Cindy and Howard Rachofsky.
Tobias Meyer, Sotheby's, Seren and Michael Shvo, Scott Nussbaum, Sotheby's.
Richard Phillips, Joyce Goss, TWO x TWO Event Chair, Janelle Pinnell, TWO x TWO Art Chair.
