Inside the Tribeca Ball Honoring Alan Cumming

On Monday night, block party season got an early kickoff courtesy of the New York Academy of Art. A jazz band kept the artfully dressed Tribeca Ball crowd — and curious onlookers across the street —entertained as guests lined the Franklin Street sidewalk, inching closer to the main event as stilt walkers ushered them inside. “She brought dessert, I brought dinner,” quipped one guest, holding a golden fish-shaped bag as Carla Shen walked by with a cake-shaped clutch. Before the evening’s actual dinner, Will Cotton, Rose Dergan, Dustin Yellin, Nicole Miller, Brynn Whitfield and more explored the school’s upper floors, where students were stationed in their studio spaces with work on display — and in some cases, were mid-creation. Rose Dergen, Will Cotton and Carla Shen. Lexie Moreland/WWD The evening honored Alan Cumming, alongside Eileen Guggenheim and Russell Wilkinson. “We are living in a time where both the arts in general and education itself — and learning — is under threat, and is so looked down upon and not encouraged,” Cumming said of his support for the New York Academy of Art. “I’ve always loved the fact that this school is about going back to traditional forms and ensuring a rounded education about the fine arts,”

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