Blake Lively, Kaia Gerber and Kim Kardashian took pictures under the lights, posing against a backdrop of more than 200 restored street lamps from “Urban Light,” an installation by the artist Chris Burden that served as a stand-in for a red carpet.
It was the 13th annual Art+Film gala, held Saturday night, which raised more than $6.4 million for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the Western United States.
On one side, a sage green carpet contrasted with striking red and glass galleries designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. On the other, there was a concrete wall of the much-anticipated new LACMA building by the architect Peter Zumthor.
And the guest list for the gala, sponsored by Gucci, felt as eclectic as the museum it benefited, as Hollywood fixtures rubbed shoulders with luminaries from the art world, who gathered to honor the filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and the artist Simone Leigh. (LACMA is currently co-presenting an exhibit of Ms. Leigh’s work with the California African American Museum.)
This starry mix of creative worlds aligns with the museum director Michael Govan’s vision for LACMA. “The idea was to design it as a place of inspiration for creative people,” Mr. Govan said.
Photographers flocked around the first-time gala attendee Mikey Madison, who stars in the buzzy new film “Anora,”
Another first-timer, Brian Jordan Alvarez, the star and creator of the popular new TV show “English Teacher,” wore yellow-tinted sunglasses while chatting with Daniel Scheinert, one of the directors of the Oscar-winning film “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
Around the pavilion, there were clusters of Los Angeles power players: Ted Sarandos, the co-chief executive of Netflix, chatted with Willow Bay, a member of the LACMA board, and her husband, Robert A. Iger, the chief executive of Disney.
There was also an all-female contingency of Los Angeles politicians, including a county supervisor, Lindsey Horvath; a city councilwoman, Katy Yaroslavsky; and a congresswoman, Sydney Kamlager-Dove.
For dinner, the party moved inside. The actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a co-chair of the gala with Eva Chun Chow, arrived alongside Mr. Luhrmann. Guests reached across long white tables to chat between courses of rice cakes, japchae and Wagyu short rib by David Shim, the chef of the Korean steakhouse Cote.
Law Roach, the fashion stylist, wore a burgundy Ferragamo suit and sported a swoop of bleach-blond hair.
“I just want to figure out if blonds have more fun,” he said while he waited for the bartender to make him a drink.
Mr. Roach and Ms. Leigh, whom he called his “Chicago sister,” collaborated on a cover shoot for Garage Magazine in 2019, turning the actress Zendaya into one of Ms. Leigh’s sculptures.
The gala’s program included a short film highlighting Ms. Leigh’s body of work in sculpture and video installations that explore themes around Black women’s experiences.
Onstage, she dedicated her honor to “all the Black women who are odd.”
A raucous montage of moments from Mr. Luhrmann’s films, including “Romeo + Juliet,” “Moulin Rouge” and “Elvis,” was followed by a speech from the fashion editor Anna Wintour, who had removed her signature sunglasses for the occasion.
Mr. Luhrmann, accepting his honor, summed up the theme of the night: “Whether it’s music or fashion or theater or art or film, there are no silos.”
Closing the program, the actor Colman Domingo invited guests to look around the room.
“On this beautiful Saturday night before next week, fill yourself with all the art, the love and the hope and the faith and the joy that we can to make this world a better place,” he said.
It was the one subtle nod to the upcoming presidential election, which few at the gala discussed. Rising from their tables, attendees returned to the pavilion for a performance by Charli XCX.
The actress Chlöe Sevigny introduced the highly anticipated set as a crowd gathered around a circular platform in a miasma of smoke, shot through with columns of light.
Charli XCX rose above the crowd in a blood-red trench coat and matching bra to the pulsing beat of her song “360,” from her latest studio album, “Brat.” She then performed “Von Dutch,” and the singer Troye Sivan joined her onstage for “Talk Talk.”
How to describe the vibe?
“Can I give you one word?” the artist Lauren Halsey began. “Fly.”
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