HMR Design Group's decor at the 2012 gala was inspired by Roy Lichtenstein's painting "Whaam!" "Giant crossed mirror shards exploding from a mirrored table splashed the artist's primary colors against the blank white canvas of Griffin Hall at the Modern Wing," said designer Bill Heffernan.
At Diffa's event in New York in 2013, Rachel Laxer Interiors with Robert Kuo designed an ode to Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard with a centerpiece of moody floral arrangements and fresh fruit.
In celebration of its Marc Chagall exhibition in 2011, the Art Gallery of Ontario hosted the Chagall Ball. With the help of McNabb Roick Events and the Idea Shop, the gallery offered entertainment inspired by the artist. Screens covered the archways in Walker Court and hired actors with animal masks and instruments sat behind them. Lights projected their shadows onto the screens.
