Scarlett Johansson will host Free Arts NYC’s 8th annual art and photography auction and benefit, ‘Portraits & Polaroids’, on April 23, 2007, in New York.

Dior has signed on as the fashion sponsor of Free Arts NYC’s 8th annual art and photography auction and benefit, ‘Portraits & Polaroids’, to take place April 23 at Milk Gallery. Scarlett Johansson and Liv Tyler will co-host alongside co-chairs Amy Sacco and Mary Alice Stephenson, and Simon de Pury will serve as auctioneer.

Holly Dunlap, Donna Karan, Alexis Bryan, Tory Burch, Lauren Davis, Damon Dash and Rachel Roy, Michael Kors, Derek Lam, Carolyn Murphy, Zac Posen, Narciso Rodriguez, Elizabeth Saltzman Walker, Peter Som, Annabel Tollman, Vera Wang, Jacquetta Wheeler, and Rachel Zoe are among the fashion community members on the benefit committee.

In 2006, the event raised over $555,000. Vanity Fair also continues on as the event’s magazine sponsor. Tickets start at $250 and are available at www.freeartsnyc.org.