{"id":18303,"date":"2017-05-01T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=18303"},"modified":"2017-05-01T18:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:39:54","slug":"projectart-hosts-my-kid-could-do-that-benefit-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/projectart-hosts-my-kid-could-do-that-benefit-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"ProjectArt Hosts &#8216;My Kid Could Do That&#8217; Benefit Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">On Friday, April 28, <a href=\"http:\/\/projectart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProjectArt<\/a> founder Adarsh Alphons was joined by event co-chairs Kyle DeWoody and Lisa Applebaum and host Phil Chan to celebrate &#8216;My Kid Could Do That,&#8217; a benefit exhibition and auction at <a href=\"http:\/\/redbullartsnewyork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Red Bull Arts New York<\/a>. The event gave attendees the opportunity to view artwork created by some of today&#8217;s most well-known artists.\u00a0The exhibition included childhood works by Cecily Brown, Daniel Arsham, Dustin Yellin, Grimanesa Amoros, Kalup Linzy, Katherine Bernhardt, Katherine Bradford, Kiki Valdes, Laurie Simmons, Matthew Ritchie, Olafur Eliasson, Osamu Kobayashi, Philip Pearlstein, Rashaad Newsome, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Sanford Biggers, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Terence Koh, Tom Sachs, Urs Fischer, Wendy White, Will Cotton, and Zo\u00eb Buckman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18307\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18307\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProjectArt-144-e1493658129768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"391\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #999999;\">Bridget Wilson, Adarsh Alphons, Mark Takano and Kyle DeWoody<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Guests enjoyed bites and cocktails as Sotheby&#8217;s Senior Vice President Michael Macaulay auctioned off pieces donated by Katherine Bernhardt, Sanford Biggers, Cecily Brown, Kalup Linzy, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Wendy White, Dustin Yellin, and Philip Pearlstein.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18306\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18306\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProjectArt-319-e1493657970136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"391\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Waris Ahluwalia and Kyle DeWoody have their portraits drawn by ProjectArt students<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">ProjectArt donors were also given the opportunity to have their portrait drawn by ProjectArt students while Control the Sound, a rock band comprised of seven kids from Brooklyn performed. Guests included Waris Ahluwalia, Grimanesa Amoro\u0301s, Zo\u00eb Buckman, Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Heather Hubbs, Anne Huntington, Osamu Kobayashi, Kalup Linzy, Phillip Pearlstein, Kiki Valdes, Wendy White, Summer Wheat, and Adam Yokell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18305\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18305\" src=\"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ProjectArt-322-e1493658005920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"392\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Waris Ahluwalia holding a portrait of him drawn by a ProjectArt student<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The evening\u00a0raised over $150,000 for arts education. To learn more about ProjectArt, click <a href=\"http:\/\/projectart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>images \/\/\u00a0Photos by B.A Van Sise. Courtesy of ProjectArt<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, April 28, ProjectArt founder Adarsh Alphons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}