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Artists for Haiti On January 12 2010 Haitithe poorest country in the Western Hemispherewas struck by a catastrophic earthquake that took nearly 230000 lives injured over 300000 people and left over a million homeless and displaced according to reports from the United Nations and USAID United States Agency for International Development. Even now twenty months later widespread devastation remains. In early 2011 actor and director Ben Stiller joined together with gallerist and art dealer David Zwirner to organize Artists for Haiti artistsforhaiti. com a major evening art auction to be held at Christies in New York on Thursday September 22 at 7 PM.