Phong Bui Curates Benefit Show with 300+ Artists Including Chuck Close and Jeff Wall

A benefit exhibition curated by Phong Bui opens on Sunday, October 20, from 4-8 PM, featuring contributions from over 300 artists. Among the participants are Chuck Close, Paul Simon, Elena Sisto, Rackstraw Downes, Silvia Bächli, Michal Rovner, Catherine Sullivan, Jeff Wall, and Dan Walsh. The show includes works and installations that evoke psychedelic experiences, with one piece depicting fire destroying a Mercedes described as both mesmerizing and frightening. The exhibition explores themes of arson as an avant-garde practice that reorganizes gallery space. Concurrently, Sol LeWitt has a summer group show at Pace Wildenstein until August 25, located at 534 W. 25th Street in New York. Phong Bui also has a solo exhibition at Sarah Bowen Gallery in Brooklyn until August 7, at 210 N. 6th Street. The LeWitt exhibition reveals a softer side to the artist's typically cerebral approach.