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Neil and David invited people into their home to look at art!!
Shop - Los Angeles Magazine - The Chic Leak Blog (scroll down a little)
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Neil Patrick Harris is seriously into the macabre. What else to make from a drawing on his bedroom wall of a young man whose head is being split in half by a knife? The grey monster head hanging upside down in his office? The ghosts that show up in art works all over his Studio City home? Harris and his partner David Burtka, who is also an actor, invited folks in to eyeball their art yesterday afternoon, with proceeds from ticket sales going to the MOCA Contemporaries, a group of charitable young art lovers. It was Burtka who drew Harris into collecting contemporary art. “When I was a caterer, we’d go to houses for jobs and see these amazing collections,” Burtka told me poolside as a DJ standing in the empty hot tub spun a foreign cover of a Michael Jackson song. 0 green“About a year after Neil came into my life I said, ‘Maybe we should fill our walls with art.’” Burtka’s first acquisition was Robert Longo’s ink-and-charcoal “Study for White Dragon,” depicting a wave with a ghost inside. Now more than 50 pieces fill the 1954 house, nine of them by Ed Templeton, the O.C. skateboarder-turned-artist. Two of Jill Greenberg’s controversial photographs of crying children hang in the guest bedroom. Curious as to what was not on display, I asked Burtka what he and Harris had put away before opening their doors to strangers. “Personal photos,” he said. “And the dog bowls.”
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