Public Eye

Saturday night in the Wind Tunnel at Art Center's South Campus the Pasadena Art Alliance held its latest biennial art auction. Pieces from many of Southern California's leading artists were sold, and the tens of thousands of dollars in proceeds will soon become donations from PAA to cutting-edge contemporary arts programs in the Southland. The PAA is not only the most successful independent arts advocacy group in the nation in terms of money raised and quickly dispensed to the right places and people -- as always, its members know how to party. The butterfly above and the angel below were just two of the more interesting guests.