More Photos and Ideas From the Museum of Contemporary Art's ArtEdge Benefit

The dessert reception at the Museum of Contemporary Art's ArtEdge gala

During the park-theme cocktail reception, guests helped themselves to cocktails that were stored in water coolers. The options were the tequila-based Patron Fresco, made with cucumbers, fresh mint, elderberry liquor and grapefruit juice, and Red Grape Lemonade, which combined white wine and triple sec with white cranberry juice and clementine vodka.

Event designers used chalk to create a hopscotch court, which helped to underscore the playful theme.

Giant branches and floating candles decorated a sunken area in the all-white dinner room, where 400 guests had vodka shots, caviar, burgers, and fries.

While guests had dinner, event designers flipped the upstairs room, changing it over from a park-like space into a lounge with a rock-and-roll theme. Crumpled beer cans played into the look.

For the dessert reception, Wolfgang Puck Catering prepared a buffet of Rice Krispy treats and mini chocolate cupcakes decorated with skulls and crossbones.

At another station, servers made cones of pink cotton candy.

Passed sweets included mini root beer floats.

The Camp Freddy concert took place on a skull-adorned stage bathed in blue and purple light.

Top sponsors got lounge seating for the concert. The seating areas offered overstuffed white couches and tables piled with Crystal Head vodka, skull-shaped shot glasses, bottles of champagne, and vases of dark red roses.

During the concert, guests could get cocktails—and earplugs—at the open bar.