Word: auctioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Law School (HLS) paraded its wares last night at an auction to help financially support students involved in public-service work this summer...
...after he moved to East Hampton, on Long Island, measured up to the qualities of this earlier work, although his reputation by then had grown to near mythic proportions. (So did his prices: in 1989, just before the great art-market bubble burst, $20.1 million was paid at auction for a 1955 painting, Interchange.) De Kooning was a tough bird, but no talent could have been unaffected by the scale of his alcoholic bouts, and the suds-and-mayonnaise color and scatty marking of his later work are in sharp contrast to the fierce, free concision of the earlier. Most...
...Guest auctioneers for the live auction included Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye and Professor of Public Policy Gary R. Orren...
...total, the 30 items up for bid in the live auction collected about $25,000, Kugel said...
...auction allows students to be creative and to offer a side of themselves that they are not usually able to express," Bailey said. "It is also very important because it makes it possible for many students to do jobs worthy of being done...