THE 11TH ANNUAL POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE BENEFIT @ METRO PICTURES: 1/10/9, 11AM-7PM.

Metro Pictures is hosting Postcards From the Edge, a one day event in which 1,500 postcard-sized original works of art are sold for $75 each. All proceeds support Visual AIDS, which utilizes contemporary art for AIDS advocacy and historicizes the work of HIV-positive artists while offering career support. All well and good, you say, but whose work would I be buying? Well, you can click here for a complete list of the hundreds of artists who donated their work, but it may not be of much help. Each piece is signed on the back and you have to buy it to find out who made it; maybe that was a Cindy Sherman piece and maybe it was by someone completely unknown. So make sure that you actually enjoy the work aesthetically before diving in. And if you end up with something from an unknown, well, just remember that Jean-Michel Basquiat was unknown when he sold his homemade postcards on the street. You should go.

The 11th Annual Postcards From the Edge Benefit
Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
Saturday, 1/10/9
11:00—7:00
$5, suggested admission