An undated handout provided to the media on Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, shows a painting by Damien Hirst, entitled ''Beautiful Jaggy Snake Charity Painting'', 2007

Hollywood star Kevin Spacey will be helping sculpture come alive at London's Old Vic theater.

Replicas of a Jeff Koons ``Rabbit,'' an angst-ridden Alberto Giacometti ``Walking Man'' and an Andy Warhol ``Brillo Box'' will be among six figures moving by remote control, with voices provided by Spacey and others in an ``intellectual slapstick comedy'' devised by Scandinavian conceptual artists Elmgreen & Dragset.

``This is a chance for us to look at other art forms for creative inspiration and to engage audiences that might not traditionally come to the theater,'' said Spacey, the Old Vic's artistic director, in an e-mailed statement.

The 45-minute piece, titled ``Drama Queens,'' will be performed on Oct. 12, the Sunday before the Frieze Art Fair. The proceeds from the performance will go to the Old Vic Theatre Trust Creative Development Programme, according to the theater's Web site. It is a curtain-raiser for Elmgreen & Dragset's first solo commercial-gallery exhibition in the U.K., opening at the Victoria Miro Gallery, east London, on October 14.

``Drama Queens'' was performed in June at the Art Basel fair, where Victoria Miro sold an Elmgreen & Dragset sculpture to the Miami collectors Donald and Mera Rubell for what gallery director Glenn Scott Wright described as a ``low six-figure'' price.

The artists, who have been awarded the Nordic and Danish pavilions at the 2009 Venice Biennale, will transform Victoria Miro into an ``unexpected new enterprise,'' said Bryony McLennan, the gallery's press and events manager, in an e-mail.

Hirst's Studio

A Sotheby's auction in which it will be selling an unprecedented amount of art that has come straight from an artist's studio -- Damien Hirst's -- will precede another sale by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.

On Sept. 15 and 16, Sotheby's will be holding Hirst's ``Beautiful Inside My Head Forever'' sale, which is expected to fetch 65 million pounds ($125 million), according to the New York-based auction house.

The two-day auction's 223 lots of new material will feature a menagerie of Hirst's trademark animal-in-formaldehyde pieces including a calf with 18-carat gold horns, a tiger shark and a zebra. A horse with added unicorn horn, titled ``The Dream,'' is estimated at 2 million pounds to 3 million pounds, while ``The Golden Calf'' is valued at up to 12 million pounds by Sotheby's.

A month later, during the week of the Frieze Art Fair, Sotheby's will be selling more new works by Hirst and others to mark the 60th anniversary of the first exhibition at the ICA.

Hirst, Antony Gormley, Peter Doig and Luc Tuymans are among more than 30 artists who have made pieces for the anniversary. These will be included in evening and day sales of contemporary art on Oct. 17 and 20. Proceeds from Sotheby's auction will be used to fund commissions, an education program and building work at the ICA's galleries in The Mall, near Buckingham Palace.

Vettriano's Butler

Sotheby's will offer a sketch of Jack Vettriano's ``Singing Butler'' in its annual sale of Scottish pictures at the Gleneagles Hotel on Aug. 26, the auction house said in an e- mailed statement.

The 15-inch-high oil sketch, produced in 1993 by the self- taught Scottish artist in an hour during a ``masterclass'' for students, is being sold for charity by the University of St. Andrews, said Sotheby's. It is expected to fetch up to 20,000 pounds.