Strippers, Socialites, Animals, and Art at Watermill Benefit

Published: July 30, 2007, 4:46 pm

Tags: party lines, art, benefits, hamptons, parties

What? No one was naked, covered in fake blood, and pouring milk on herself at your party this weekend?Photo: Patrick McMullan Robert Wilson's Watermill Center is kind of like a summer camp for young artists, and its annual benefit is perhaps the most amazingly odd party we attend. Saturday night was no exception. We walked into cocktails to find a naked and rather chunky woman blindfolded and covered in fake blood; as the evening went on she occasionally broke glasses of milk on the ground. The woods nearby were filled with plasma television screens showing Wilson's video portraits of various animals — a toad, a porcupine, a shaggy dog — and as you walked along the path, people dressed as incredibly stylish animals would scatter or approach at your every step, until you ended your walk at a group of Tibetan drummers. (At cocktail hour last year, there were people in skintight black and white spandex suits with giant globes attached to their heads and limbs.) Dinner was

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