Waterkeeper Alliance Presents Art for Water

Waterkeeper President Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Artist Chair Jeff Koons will present Art for Water, a benefit art auction, taking place at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City on Monday March 5, 2012.

A wide range of artists representing the art communities finest have come together to support

Waterkeeper Alliance the world’s largest and fastest growing clean water advocacy group.

Waterkeeper is on the front lines protecting this resource uniting 200 Waterkeepers who patrolprotect and advocate on rivers, bays, lakes and streams on six continents around the globe,— more than 1.6 million square miles of waterways –fighting every day for their communities right to have swimmable, drinkable and fishable waters.

The event will feature significant works by such notable artists as; Marina Abramovic • Chuck

Close • Dan Colen • Gregory Crewdson • Willem de Kooning • Olafur Eliasson • Jasper Johns•Donald Judd • Alex Katz • Jeff Koons• Roy Lichtenstein • Robert Longo • Sarah Morris •Catherine Opie • Raymond Pettibon• Peter Sarkisian • Laurie Simmons • Josh Smith

There will be a very special performance by Debbie Harry from “Blondie.” that evening before the live auction gets under way.

Previews of the “Art for Water” collection being auctioned for the benefit of Waterkeeper Alliance can be viewed on the Paddle 8 web site and live bidding has begun.

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A limited number of Tickets to the Art for Water event on March 5, 2012 are available

and for further information please contact: Liz Gilchrist at 212-868-8450 x210 or email:

liz@livetreichard.com

The host committee for the event is: Wendy Abrams, Lisa Anastos, Kevin Bacon & Kyra

Sedgwick, Andre Balasz , Colleen Bell, Leslie Bluhm, Marianne Boesky, Peter M. Brant, Melva

Bucksbaum & Raymond Learsy, Steve Cohen, Virigina Dadey, Lisa De Kooning, Beth Rudin

DeWoody, Frances Dittmer, Jane Eckert, Emily Glasser, Helyn Goldenberg, Gina Goldman & Walter Schupfer, Jill Goldman, Agnes Gund, Anne Randolph Hearst & Jay McInerney, Dorothy Lichtenstein, John McEnroe, Paul Morris, Judith Neisser, Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey Peabody, Lynda & Stewart Resnick, Marjorie Susman, Michelle Tillou, Linda Warren, Dustin Yellin, Linda Zelenko