Watermill Center Summer Benefit

While torrential rain may have put a damper on the various live performances amid a constellation of sculptures (notably Paul McCarthy’s giant “butt plug”) at the 19th annual Benefit, what the night’s emcee, novelist Jay McInerney, called “The Hamptons rowdiest and most interesting party,” kept on going for a good cause—with all funds going to support the Center’s residency programs for emerging artists.