Abramovic, Armstrong, Baker & Prose Honored Capitale, NYC 4/15

On April 15, 2011, BOMB Magazine will celebrate 30 years of independent publishing and programming with its biggest Gala & Silent Auction yet, at Capitale in New York City. This year's honorees include Marina Abramovi?, Richard Armstrong, Betsy Baker, and Francine Prose.

The honorees will be toasted by Michael Cunningham, Arthur C. Danto, Mary Heilmann, and Ellsworth Kelly.

A Cocktail Party and Silent Auction will kick off the festivities at 6:30 PM with over 50 works of art donated by renowned artists including: Huma Bhabha, Carroll Dunham, Adam Fuss, John Giorno, Katharina Grosse, Arturo Herrera, Thomas Hirschhorn, Roni Horn, Deborah Kass, Robert Mangold, Shirin Neshat, Adam Pendleton, Mika Rottenberg, Fred Tomaselli, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lawrence Weiner. The honorees will be toasted during the seated dinner, which begins at 8:00PM. The evening will close with dessert and final bidding on the art in the Silent Auction at 10:30PM.

This year's Honorary Chair, Amy Phelan, and Co-Chairs, Robert Duffy, Mary & Sean Kelly, Michèle Gerber Klein, and Michael Ward Stout are joined by BOMB committee members that include: Laurie Anderson, Art in America, Bloomberg, Amy Cappellazzo, Cary Brown-Epstein, RoseMary Carroll, Deborah Eisenberg + Wallace Shawn, Anthony Grant, Gagosian Gallery, Agnes Gund, Rachel Hovnanian, Hauser + Wirth, Heather Kirby, Jill + Peter Kraus, Elizabeth LeCompte, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Linda + Harry Macklowe, Michele Oka Doner + Frederick Doner, Jane Rosenblum, Laurie Simmons, Jennifer Blei Stockman, Lybess Sweezy + Ken Miller, Mimi Thompson + James Rosenquist, and many others.

For full details about tickets and artwork on the auction, visit www.bombsite.com/gala

ABOUT

Marina Abramovi?'s recent retrospective at MoMA, The Artist is Present, traced her prolific career with 50 works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo and collaborative performances. The artist is represented by Sean Kelly, New York.

Richard Armstrong has been the Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum since 2008. Prior to that he was the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he organized numerous exhibitions, and the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art.

Elizabeth Baker was editor of Art in America from 1974 to 2008. She remains associated with the magazine as editor-at-large. She has taught art history at the School of Visual Arts, Wheaton College, and Boston University, and has written on a wide range of contemporary artists. The recipient of a Mather Award for criticism in 1972, and an award for distinguished contribution to the arts from the College Art Association in 1992, in recent years she has received other awards for service to the arts from ArtTable, Independent Curators Inc., Art Resources Transfer, and AICA-USA. She is currently working as a freelance writer, editor, and consultant.

Francine Prose has written 15 novels, among them Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2000, and most recently My New American Life. Her books of nonfiction include The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired; Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles; Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins; and Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife. Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them was a New York Times bestseller. She is currently a Distinguished Writer in residence at Bard College.

Founded in 1981, BOMB Magazine is celebrating 30 years of independent publishing and programming. By producing conversations between artists, writers, actors, musicians, and directors across multiple platforms-in print, online, and at live events-BOMB has made the artist's voice an essential component of cultural discourse. The BOMB Digital Archive features over 1,000 in-depth interviews and will soon expand to include a complete digital record of all published content from 1981 to the present. This year, BOMB will launch an Oral Histories Project, its own iPad/iPhone application, and further expand BOMBlog as a new media platform for emerging artists and writers. Our past inspires us to imagine bold, new models for fulfilling our mission for the next 30 years. To learn more, visit BOMBsite.com.