Amirah Kessem of the Flour Shop signals the opening of her edible installation for the Brooklyn Artists Ball Dance Party

Photographs by Liz Ligon

Art Benefactor Elizabeth Sackler, The Studio Museum Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden and guest

Emma Hall partaking of the edible “Willy Wonka-esque” installation

Ghost of a Dream artists Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom

Developer Jed Walentas, Creative Time’s Anne Pasternak and artist Dustin Yellin

Artist and one the evening’s honorees Kehinde Wiley with friend Rahsaan Gandy

Rapper Le1f performing for the crowd at the Brooklyn Artists Ball

Table by Nick van Woert, featuring Plexiglas box sculptures, evocative of landscape paintings by Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt

Diners received Rembrandt (Flemish Old Master) portrait do-it-yourself kits at Nina Katchadourian’s table

Performer at OLEK’s colorfully crocheted table installation

Orly Genger’s “Bachelor” table, featuring individually named sculptures made of recycled lobster fishing rope

Padma Lakshmi arrives at the Brooklyn Artists Ball

Photgraphed by Elena Olivo

Sara and Marc Schiller, founders of the Wooster Collective, dressed in the Old Master style by artist Nina Katchadourian

Brooklyn Artists Ball Co-Chair Stephanie Ingrassia with artist Dustin Yellin

Stephanie Simons, curator Stacy Engman and documentary filmmaker Dana Ben-Ari

Aerial view of the 16 artist-created tables for this year’s Brooklyn Artists Ball