BAMart's Silent Auction will open at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 29th with both a live exhibition and in-person + online bidding. This is your opportunity to support one of Brooklyn's oldest and most notable arts institutions — BAM — and acquire great original works of art. After the opening, you'll be able to view and bid on works, in person, at BAM, seven days a week. If you're not in NYC, you can start bidding with everyone else on the 29th online, bidding is open 24 hours a day! The auction will close, online and in-person, on May 11th, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.

Also be sure to save the date for the Silent Auction Cocktail Reception with special guests Andrew Andrew on Saturday, May 9, from 5-7 PM at BAM.

But first, visit Andrew Andrew for easy as 1, 2, 3 bidding instructions. Then start browsing + bookmarking the works you want! We're especially excited to see so many Jen Bekman Gallery and 20x200 artists participating. Among the works available, you'll find:

Untitled #8, 2008 by Kent Rogowski

2nd Class Girls, "St. Petersburg, Russia", 2007 by Rachel Papo

Red Hook Revere Sugar Refinery Ruins (Ikea Flattening and Flatpacking Construction, Our Biggest Idea is the Smallest Price), 2009 by Greg Lindquist

Optical, 2008 by Carrie Marill

TIME 2009 by Mickey Smith

Plus, work from many, many other artists we love, including Maira Kalman, Alex Katz, Adia Millett, and Leah Raintree. We want!