This past Wedneday evening, the
Audi Forum in
New York City hosted a gala party attended by
celebrities and the weary
automotive press in town to cover the
New York Auto Show. The beautiful people on hand included Tom Brady (celebrity status: A), Tyson Beckford (celebrity status: B), Will Arnett (celebrity status: A-), Denise Rich (celebrity status: ?) and members of the
Gossip Girl cast (according to my fiance,
celebrity status: better than Tom Brady). Though
Autoblog was not in attendance (thus reducing the list of A list celebrities), Audi was kind enough to send us pics of the special
A5 it revealed that night (and Tom Brady sitting in the R8 TDI Le Mans concept from the
Geneva Motor Show). Custom-painted by
New York artist Hunt Slomen, the coupe features a swath of art that flows from the
car's hood and down across the driver-side door. The artwork is abstract, but we can make out white birds, which our single semester of Art History 101 tells us represents doves, which in turn represents peace. Or it could represent the jobless rate of carrier pigeons in this age of digital e-mail. The custom-painted
A5 will be donated to Denise Rich's G&P Foundation for Cancer Research and auctioned after it tours the country for a bit.
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