The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles gala—complete with Lady Gaga performing the world premiere of her new song, "Speechless," with dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet—goes off tomorrow for about 900 guests, but an online auction will continue the fund-raising efforts through November 30. The museum will auction a Damien Hirst-created Steinway & Sons grand piano live at the 30th anniversary event, which will kick off an online auction of artwork created for Francesco Vezzoli’s Ballets Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again), a one-time performance work commissioned by MOCA for the gala.
Online bidding for the works, which include costumes by artists and designers Frank Gehry, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Miuccia Prada, and Vezzoli, will run through the end of the month, with proceeds benefitting MOCA’s exhibition and education programs. Specifically, the hat worn by Gaga and designed by Gehry, masks worn by Gaga and Vezzoli and designed by Luhrmann and Martin, and costumes worn by Gaga and the dancers and designed by Prada and Vezzoli are among the one-of-a-kind offerings.
"The MOCA 30th anniversary gala will allow the winning bidders to take home a piece of living art history from Francesco Vezzoli’s one-night-only performance conceived and created by the artist specifically for the... gala,” said Maria Bell, MOCA board of trustees co-chair and gala co-chair in an announcement.
Earlier this year, MOCA and its longtime event chief, Vanessa Gonzalez, parted ways.
