We  have reported several times about the Takashi Murakami organized charity auction “New Day: Artists for Japan”, in association with Christie’s. The event finally took place Wednesday morning in New York City and was jam packed with both collectors and fans of the Japanese artist. Participating artists included Zeng Fanzhi, Mark Grotjahn, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, KAWS, Jeff Koons, Friedrich Kunath, Mr., Yoshimoto Nara, Gabriel Orozco, Anselm Reyle, Cindy Sherman, Aya Takano and Luc Tuymans.

Our favorite, Kaws, got a record high for his “Kawsbob Enters the Strange Forest” (2011) painting, at a whooping 155′000 USD. Having followed him now for such a long time, it is great seeing him come this far. A price war between the Paris dealer of the artist, Emmanuel Perrotin, and one of his clients, forced the price up to 155′000 USD.

The highest piece of work sold during the auction, was the Jeff Koons “Balloon Monkey Wall Relief” for exactly 1′000′000 USD. All in all the auction raised almost 9 Million USD for the Japanese earthquake victims, which is simply incredible. (Via AI)

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To celebrate the launch of Karmaloop’s brand new auction site (KarmaSwap) Karmaloop has teamed up with superstar Kanye West to auction off signed memorabilia. Yes, they will be auctioning of a pair of limited edition Air Yeezys signed by Kanye. But that is not all they will also be auctioning off signed “Glow In the Dark” books, “Thank You” books and T-shirts. 100% of the proceeds raised will go to the Kanye West Foundation.

If you want to participate, please go here.

Images of some more items that will be sold follow after the jump.

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Nobody really suspected it, but now that it is official it somehow makes sense. The Japanese Online Magazine does not stop with their online store and now also shows off their Auction site – Honeyee Auctions. If you thought that their online store was carrying hard to get and hard to find goodies, then you were clearly wrong, because that is taken care of on the Auctions site. Auctions will run from October 10th until October 26th for the first slot of products and in this first range you find vintage Swiss Watches, a first edition Neighborhood Leather Jacket, an old Chevy El Camino,  Jean Prouve Coffee Table and Fragment Design fixed bike frames. Definitely a crazy line-up that you cannot find in any store or website these days.
Unfortunately the auction site is just like the store only open to people living in Japan. After the jump some pics of the products that will go on auction mid next month.

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