Watermill Center Summer Benefit
On July 28, some 1,200 guests headed out to the Watermill Center in the Hamptons for the art organization’s annual benefit, one of the season’s biggest draws for philanthropists. Inside the dinner tent a chandelier positioned over the dance floor was made up of plastic recycling bags and pink fabric streamers.
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Artist Jennifer Rubell created a cell padded with edible cotton candy.
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PepsiCo's Bryant Park Pop-Up
PepsiCo's PepCity pop-up at Bryant Park during Super Bowl weekend offered an unusual take on the New York skyline with a mural made from Cheetos.
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The honoree dinner's dining tent at the Meridian House
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The blue-hued bite was Parisienne potatoes topped with blue-dyed whitefish mousse and blue sea salt.
Photo: Kyle Burton
2. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Modern Ball
#2 Benefit
San Francisco
The museum's biggest fund-raiser, which in 2012 raised $2.8 million for art education programs, is an elegantly design gala with highlights like chef Hubert Keller—as the event's DJ. The ball will take place off site next year while the museum is closed for Âexpansion. Next: April 2014
Photo: Aengus McGriffin
The Washington National Opera Ball took over the ceremonial building at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in 2010. Event producer Sandi Hoffman of Sandi R. Hoffman Special Events transformed the lobby into a winter landscape with plush white carpets and white birch trees lining the hallway.
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Photo: Jemal Countess of WireImage for TNT/TBS
