Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) will hope Sotheby's star auctioneer Phyllis Kao will bring some of her TikTok traction to their next fundraising sale.
Kao, vice-president of Sotheby's New York, was dubbed 'the viral auctioneer' last year after footage of her selling a dinosaur skeleton racked up almost 4 million views on the social media site and brought the auction house 30,000 new TikTok followers.
She will wield the gavel at the museum's auction on June 6 with donated works by artists including Ed Ruscha and Rashid Johnson up for sale with all proceeds going to support the museum.
Johnson's work Untitled Standing Broken Men is valued at $1.2 million, while Ruscha's Yup Nope should fetch $850,000.