Last week, the Brooklyn Museum held their annual Artists Ball bash fundraiser, which honoured the patrons Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia and brought in $2.2m for the museum—the most successful fundraising event in its history, the director Anne Pasternak triumphantly announced at dinner. The “white hot” dress code (which the guests followed to varying degrees) continued upstairs in the Beaux-Arts Court dinner setting with the event designer David Stark’s decorations of “paper goods”—ie, paper towel and toilet paper rolls. These included tall totem-like structures in the middle of the tables—apparently inspired by Brancusi’s sculptures—and a lattice-like backdrop for the podium. The artist Ingar Dragset, one half of Elmgreen & Dragset, was amused by the choice of material, and the environmentally-conscious will be happy to note: the paper goods will be re-used—presumably for their express purpose.