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Brooklyn Ball

Honoring the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Co-chaired by:
Stephanie Ingrassia
Mario Batali and Susi Cahn
Hamish Bowles
Annie Leibovitz
Zac Posen
Carla Shen
Stefano Tonchi
Susan Weber

Festive and fashionable attire

The year’s Brooklyn Ball will celebrate the landmark partnership between the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in creating the largest and most comprehensive costume collection in the world.

After more than three decades of limited public visibility, we are thrilled to re-introduce the collection and debut the exhibition American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection two weeks in advance of its public opening on May 7. Proudly, the Brooklyn collection will also be the focus of a spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, and its annual Costume Institute Gala.

Please join us as we break with the traditional arrangements of years past. A newly conceived event will focus on fashion, fun, and culinary excitement as only Brooklyn can do it! Jennifer Rubell, whom New York Times senior art critic Roberta Smith credits with “laying waste to the prolonged ordeal that is the benefit dining experience,” will present Icons, an interactive food journey through the Museum including drinking paintings, suspended melting cheese heads, and more.

6:30 p.m
Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the fifth-floor Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing
Viewing of American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection

8 p.m.
Feast in the Beaux-Arts Court

9:30 p.m.–12 a.m.
Dessert and dancing in the Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion and Lobby

Individual tickets are available for $500, $1,000 and $1,500. Tables range from $5,000 to $50,000. To purchase tickets, please contact the Special Events Office at (718) 501-6409.

Proceeds from the Brooklyn Ball support the Museum’s educational programming. For more information about this year’s Ball, please contact the Special Events Office at (718) 501-6423.

Information for High Style: The After Party is also available online.