Another party in the Hamptons… Sounds like a cliché since the Hamptons is all about the parties, the charity events and the benefit galas but this summer I’ve had the privilege of going to quite a few of them. So the Watermill Center puts on an amazing show once a year, and this year proved to be even more so as it’s Robert Wilson’s 70th Birthday so his devoted students at the Watermill Center who seem to focus on installation art among other things, had done their best to outshine each other.
The theme of the party was fearless which had not been picked up as adamantly by the guests as was expected. I assumed I’d see quite a few half naked individuals at the party but my see through dress with red lingerie proved to be one of the high lights of the fearless interpretation… But we were greeted by women that were mumbling in weird tongues to a white ghosts and they certainly seemed to have forgotten part of their clothes…
Then there was the spider man on the dial that worked so hard, so hard to get our attention during the cocktail hours. And then there was a pillow fight between wailing women,
two men that were buried in the ground and spoke about the sad state of affairs in the world,
the decadent pregnant women (or were they perhaps cross-dressers?) that were smoking and drinking and causing all kinds of stinks on the slings but the finale may have taken the cake from my point of view. A tame little man that held a wild seductive secretary stereotyped woman on a leash and kept her in a the woman cage that had a sign that said ”Beware of the Woman.”
As a pseudo feminist, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, except if I was a secretary kept on a leash, I’d want my man to be sweet to me, and he did stroke her over the head i a gentle sort of way so who knows…
The spectacles segued into a fabulous dinner where Rufus Wainright sang a specially composed Birthday song for Bob Wilson
and we were part of raising $1.4 M for the sake of the artists at the Center ☺ I bid on a few beautiful photographs for the Maidstone and managed to secure the specially created Birthday set of limited prints for Bob Wilson, created by many of his fans including Yoko Ono. They’re quite spectacular. So special indeed that their delivery date will be September but make sure to come by then as we will honor the Watermill Center as well as its distinguished founder and creator Robert Wilson as he continues to inspire greatness in us all. I’m thrilled I got to go to their party once more. It made me feel magical for a little bit as we joined that part of heaven that stands out as being way cooler, stranger and more unattainable than the rest. Check out the rest at watermillcentre.org.
Enjoy!
Jenny
