Wednesday Nov 19, 2008 (8pm)
Judah Friedlander (the trucker-hatted staff writer on 30 Rock) has some funny — and drunk — shoes to fill, following last year's Bad Art Auction host Zach Galifianakis. The art also has to be pretty terrible to top last year's NASCAR portraiture and inflatable pig paintings (donated by Moby, no less). But, we're sure New York mag has realized all of this, and has planned an appropriately appalling evening to again benefit charitable partner New York Cares. Avant rockers Xiu Xiu cap the affair with some good, if dissonant, art-rock noise.
– Leah Taylor