Among the works up for auction, as reported by the AP, were: a stylized video diptych by artist/opera director Robert Wilson of soprano Ren_e Fleming as Massenet's ThaÇs (which sold for $130,000); another portrait of Fleming, this time in casual clothes, made by Chuck Close using a cotton tapestry technique (versions went for $70,000 and $80,000); a series of four Polaroids by William Wegman, including one of a pair of his Weimaraners in costumes for next season's Hansel und Gretel ($50,000); and an ink-on-paper drawing by artist William Kentridge, who will direct Shostakovich's The Nose at the Met in 2010, of a bird-catcher — presumably inspired by Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute, Kentridge's staging of which was recently seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music ($110,000).

Other works were provided by artists John Chamberlain, George Condo, Barnaby Furnas, Guillermo Kuitca, Richard Prince, David Salle, Cindy Sherman and Sophie von Hellerman.