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15 photos from the most avant-garde party in the Hamptons

Hollis JohnsonJul 28, 2015, 03:35 IST

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Hamptons parties are famously lavish, but the annual Watermill Center Benefit marks the peak of the East End's social season.

A playground for the museum's summer talent (mostly performance artists) and high-profile guests alike, the event is the passion project of Watermill Center artistic director Robert Wilson.

With fantastical installations and performance vignets at every turn of a maze-like forest, ArtNet writer Cait Munro, who was in attendance this year, dubbed it "the Burning Man of the gala scene".

Keep scrolling to see what guests like Jay McInerney and Rufus Wainwright saw as they made their way through the arty forest.