NEW YORK— Word at the star-studded Whitney Contemporaries’ Art Party in June was that actress Michelle Trachtenberg, the troublemaking Georgina Sparks on the hit television show Gossip Girl, is a confirmed art lover. Among her prizes: a painting of Audrey Hepburn by Los Angeles artist Patrick McCarthy. But Trachtenberg wasn’t bidding on anything at the silent auction in New York, where the glitterati included Rachel Bilson, James Franco and Ivanka Trump. She says she’s holding out for her “dream” artwork—one of Camille Rose Garcia’s creepy cartoon paintings. Luckily for her, Chelsea dealer Jonathan LeVine just happens to be staging a show this month of Garcia’s works, which start at $20,000.

"Gossip Girl Here" originally appeared in the September 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's September 2008 Table of Contents.