ConTempo fund-raiser coming up

Advertiser Staff

Each year the Contemporary Museum plays host to a gala fund-raising party accompanied by a silent auction of works by art-world luminaries and newcomers, both local and international. To participate in the auction, you don't even need to go to the museum or be a museum member. Just go to the museum's Web site (www.tcmhi.org), download registration and bid forms and make your bid by April 14.

All of the works are illustrated on the Web site, with bios of the artists. In addition, the works are on view at Neiman Marcus, in the first-floor escalator area, until April 13.

Registration and bid forms are also available at the museum and at the concierge desk at Neiman Marcus. Starting bids are as low as $450 for a Norfolk Island pine bowl by Hawai'i woodworker R.W. Butts. The highest-priced piece — and at $85,000 a bargain by art-world standards — is a 7-foot bronze horse by Deborah Butterfield, who spends part of each year in Holualoa.