So, it’s Sunday night, Dec 16. You want to do a little dancing. You also want to support some essential nonprofit arts organizations hit by Sandy. You can do both at once. That evening, beginning at 9 p.m., a large gang of organizations is hosting a benefit at the Tribeca club Santos Party House to raise money for the Kitchen, which sustained some $500,000 in damage; Printed Matter, which was flooded; and Primary Information, which had its inventory soaked. Read More

Those on the lookout for something to do in Miami Beach on Friday evening with a charitable flavor, take note: in place of its standard Miami Basel party, MoMA PS1 is hosting a benefit for the Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, which is supporting relief efforts in that Sandy–battered section of New York. Read More

What does a dispossessed Cherokee tribe, a John Lennon-Eric Clapton supergroup and Marilyn Monroe’s unborn son have in common? All were shopping for an apartment on the Upper East Side on Monday afternoon.

Well, not exactly, but it is possible to shop for both a $4 million apartment and a $40,000 manuscript at the Douglas Elliman showroom at 980 Madison Avenue through Sunday.

Profiles in History, a middlebrow auction house (Albert Einstein’s letter’s, the desk Bram Stoker wrote Dracula on, Kate Winslett’s emerald earrings from Titanic) and Marsha Malinowski, who once auctioned off a Magna Carta for $21 million, are offering some 299 items on December 18, “the Property of a Distinguished American Private Collector.” Ms. Malinowski, after 26 years at Sotheby’s, struck out in May on her own, and her first big offering is the work of the collector she has long known. Read More

After being hit by flooding from Sandy, galleries are getting back on their feet. Below, a list of when affected galleries are planning to reopen, and the shows they will be presenting. We’ll continually update the list until everyone has reopened. If you have news to share of galleries reopening, please e-mail us or drop a note in the little “tip box” at right; we will continually update this post. (Please note: we’re trying to focus on galleries that were closed as a result of the storm and have not yet reopened.) Read More

The Hurricane Sandy relief fund started by the Art Dealers Association of America has doubled its initial funds thanks to some donations, and the grant money currently available clocks in at $500,000. Donations came from galleries, collectors, publications and nonprofits. Read More

Immediately following Hurricane Sandy, art insurer AXA was hesitant to put a value on the damage to art for its 300 clients in Chelsea and Lower Manhattan. Now, in a press release, President and CEO Christiane Fischer has said “our estimated losses in Chelsea stand at $40 million.” Read More