Brooklyn Museum hosted a swanky ball where Kings County’s upper crust paid top-dollar to dance, dine, and hobnob with the likes of Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz on April 3.
A seat at Brooklyn Museum’s star-spangled Artist Ball started at a whopping $1,500, and went all the way up to a mind-blowing $100,000, called the “Leader” tier of pricing, which bought advertising options at the event and the ability to host two celebrities at corporate tables.
Kravitz, a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, record producer and actor, has most recently been seen in a recurring role on the television show “Star.”
Keys, an internationally-renowned singer-songwriter who is currently a coach on the hit NBC-TV show “The Voice,” and her husband, rapper-producer-entrepreneur Kasseem Dean (Swizz Beatz), were honored at the gala for their “groundbreaking creativity, support of art in all its forms, and dedication to making our world a better and more beautiful place.”
The couple is closely involved in a number of charities, with a particular focus on children, including Keep a Child Alive — an organization that since 2003 has provided HIV treatment to children orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS — as well as the Bronx Charter School for the Arts, New York City Health + Hospitals, the Gordon Parks Foundation, and the Children’s Rights Organization, which provides legal services to protect the rights of foster children.
