{"id":72370,"date":"2025-12-16T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72370\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:56:10","slug":"inside-the-2026-new-york-academy-of-art-take-home-a-nude-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72370\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the 2026 New York Academy of Art Take Home a Nude Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn Monday night, the New York<\/a> Academy of Art hosted its annual Take Home a Nude art auction benefit at Phillips. The walls were packed with nudes for all tastes, from figurative paintings to demure photos and artworks that skirted the human form topic all together; a painting of a a lemon had sold before the event even started, via the online silent auction.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u200aI was in the auction business before. I\u2019m running the academy now, but being in an auction house is a familiar turf for me,\u201d said Paul Provost, who worked at Christie\u2019s earlier in his career before being named president of the academy last spring. \u201cThere was a lot at stake,\u201d Provost added of his previous gig. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot at stake tonight, too. We hope to \u200araise a lot of money for the academy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGuests included artists such ass Will Cotton, Chris \u201cDaze\u201d Ellis, gallerist Jeffrey Deitch<\/a> and Damian Loeb, who walked with actor Michael Myers through the galleries. The stilt walkers, a NYAA event staple, were also on the move, reminding guests to get their final bids in before the lots started to close ahead of the live auction.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe evening honored the late Walter Robinson, a painter, critic and founding editor of Artnet magazine.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u200aOne of the best human beings. Selfless, passionate,\u201d said Robinson\u2019s wife Lisa Rosen. \u201cThe art world to him was 54 years of selfless giving and just loving artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u200aA real supporter of the academy,\u201d added Provost. \u201cA great artist, a great critic, and he would come to the academy and do critiques with students.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRobinson\u2019s contribution to the school will continue with the newly created Robinson Scholarship Fund, supported by proceeds from the evening\u2019s auction.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the live auction, guests collected their newly acquired works and headed to dinner at the Metropolitan Club.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Eileen<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tEileen Guggenheim<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLexie Moreland\/WWD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday night, the New York Academy of Art hosted its annual Take Home a Nude art auction…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,8368],"class_list":{"0":"post-72370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-parties"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}