Lady Gaga (in Prada S/S 2010) with choreographer Francesco Vezzoli, Muccia Prada on arrives at MOCA is the same dress from her Spring '10 collection.

We are so excited about all the change happening in the art world here in L.A.! You have NO IDEA how much!!!

We are planning to closely track what we are now calling the “Gallerinas” and “Galleratti” – so stay tuned!

We feel soon that you won’t be able to attend any premiere or red carpet without there being flying acrobats coming at you or some artistic collaboration. We believe Hollywood is going to propel performance art into the mainstream and soon gallery owners, art collectors and artists will be as well know as producers, directors and actors.

We are very excited about all this and largely attribute it to MOCA for putting together the correct group of people for this year’s 30th anniversary Gala last night – and by that I am referring to Dasha Zhukova, Francesco Vezzoli and Lady Gaga. The Dream Team!

Total auction dollars raised was 3.5M. MOCA’s chief curator, Paul Schimmel, tour the stars through the MOCA permanent collection at their 30th anniversary gala. Permanent collection includes work by Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Prince, Raymond Pettibon, Mark Rothko, Edward Ruscha (who was in attendance with his wife), Christopher Wool, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Franz Kline, etc. In honor of its 30th anniversary, MOCA is also offering free admission through Friday. The exhibition will be up through until Spring 2010. MOCA performers’ costumes are also up for auction online through Nov. 30. All of the funds raised will be used to benefit the exhibition and education programs.

One gala attendee at MOCA downtown remarked: “This event is so big that its insane… How often do you get all of these people in one room together ???? NEVER… Marrying art to ballet (referring to the Bolshoi ballet that was bussed in from Moscow thanks to Dasha) to Lady Gaga’s bizarre antics with notable individuals from all over the world should NOT be taken lightly. This event was more European than anything. NYC-style but very European as well.”

It helps to have star support. And you can credit the powerful turn out last night to Francesco Vezzoli, the Italian performance artist who has produced saucy, sexy, performance and mock art pieces from faux trailers to faux commercials and star A list actors like Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams, Helen Mirren, Gore Vidal, Benecio del Toro, Milla Jovavich and Gerard Butler.

His history of bringing the stars together did not fail last night.

Photo (left): Christina Ricci in Prada SS10

L.A. Native Angelina Jolie (Beverly Hills High ’91, who wore an Asprey ring from the line she has co-collaborated with Asprey and Brad Pitt) & Brad Pitt, Gwen Stefani & Gavin Rossdale & Rose McGowan, producer Brian Grazer, producer Brad Grey, Pierce Brosnan & author Keely Shaye Smith, Eva Mendes, Marisa Tomei, Pharrell Williams, Brett Ratner, Christina Ricci (in Prada SS10), Sandra Oh, Jessica Alba (in Prada SS10), John Legend, Writer Diablo Cody, author Gore Vidal (who worked with Artist Fracesco Vezzoli and an A list cast to make hot, sexy, fake trailer for a pretend remake of his film “Caligula”), artist Takashi Murakami, Disney’s Bob Iger, Chloë Sevigny (in Mui Mui SS10), Zoe Saldana, designer Peter Dundas (Peter Dundas who is headed to Pucci from French furrier Revillon and used to helm Emanuel Ungaro), singer Ciara, Joel Silver, Chris O’ Donnell and wife Caroline O’ Donnell, James Franco & actress Ahna O Reilly,  producer Mike Medavoy, Kelly Lynch, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, architect Frank Gehry, Director of the LACMA Michael Govan, TV producer Darren Star, MOCA Board of Trustees Co-Chair David Johnson, artist David Hockney, artist Jeff Koons, MOCA founder and board member Dallas Price-Van Breda, producer Joel Silver, director Guy Ritchie, publisher Benedikt Taschen, Prada designer Miuccia Prada (in same Prada SS10 as Lady Gaga), Maria Arena Bell, MOCA Deputy Director Ari Wiseman, Vice Chairman of Sotheby’s Jamie Niven, the Rodarte sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy (who co-hosted the after party with Dasha and Pop Magazine), Decades owner Cameron Silver, French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld and her son Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld, Photographer David LaChapelle and boyfriend actor Drew Kuhse, Neil Patrick Harris and boyfriend David Burtka, Neil Kate Bosworth and Kate Beckinsale all showed.

But beyond all the “Brangies” and the “Gwavins” we welcome the new set of “Gallerinas” – as they’ll soon be known – who were present to usher in this historic event that will completely update the L.A. art world. The after party Saturday after the MOCA gala was hosting by Dasha Zhukova (editor of POP magazine and founder of the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture), Ed & Danna Ruscha, Chloe Sevigny, Kate & Laura Mulleavy (of Rodarte) and Rosetta Getty at Prism Gallery in West Hollywood. “Localites” at the gala and after party include Doug Aitken, hotelier André Balazs, Yves Behar, banker Nicolas Berggruen, Devendra Banhart, Klaus Biesenbach, Irving Blum, Io Bottoms, Gia Coppola (granddaughter of Francis Ford), Douglas Cramer, L.A. Native Caroline D’Amore, Atlanta De Cadenet, Todd Eberle, L.A. Native Eric Eisner with wife Lisa, Los Angeles story teller Bret Easton Ellis (“Less than Zero”), Tierney Gearon, David  & Susan Gersh (of the Gersh Agency), Jacqui Getty, Tavi Gevinson, Mitch Glazer & Johnson Hartig, Anjela Janklow & Jeff Stein, Kenna, Shirley Manson, Craig McDean, Barry McGee, Shala Monroque, Peter & son L.A. Native and restaurateur Harry Morton, Elon Musk, Eugenie and her brother Stavros Niarchos, Raymond Pettibon, Sydney Picasso, Jean Pigozzi, Kim Porter, Carine & son Vladamir Restoin Roitfeld, boutique owner Tracey Ross, L.A. Native designer Jasmin Shokrian, Joel & Karen Silver, Stefan Simchowitz, Manfred Simchowitz, Julia Sorkin (as in Aaron Sorkin), Jeffrey Soros, Wendy Stark, Lily Tartikoff, Jamie Tisch, PC Valmorbida, Andy Valmorbida, Guinevere van Seenus, Neville Wakefield., L.A. Native China Chow, art gallery owner Karyn Lovegrove, art collector and L.A. native Steven Neu, L.A. native Elliot Hans Johnson & his wife Kaya Burcek (who together design Literature Noir),  DJ Zen Freeman, L.A. Native Liz Goldwyn, Peaches Geldof, L.A. Native Nicky Hilton (Buckley ’99), Artist and legendary skater Steve Olson (pictured right) and his son, also a skater and L.A. native, Alex Olsen (below with Chloë Sevigny – photo courtesy of LA native and friend the cobrasnake), Barry McGee, Phil Frost, Will Kopelman (son of former Chanel president Ari Kopelman) and Tony Ward. It’s a surprise that Margarita Missoni was a no show, she came to town to stay at Quincy Jones’ house for the weekend. She did show up later at the after party with Eugenie Niarchos, brother of Stavros Niarchos, SPICE BURNS, an incredible new band, arrived with awesome headbands Margherita Missoni on talong with the rest of the girls from her new band Spice Burns.

Spice Burns (Margherita Missoni far right) – this photo from the blog of Tavi aka Style Rookie

Artist Channing Hansen (brother of Beck) attended as well and tweeted “The Collections show at MOCA is F’in amazing!” Designer Jeremy Scott who accompanied a publicist by the name of Jessica who is a founder of the young patrons group at MOCA, L.A. Native Harry Morton, and director Griffin (who’s latest film for Rodarte starring Jenny Lewis was selected to go to Diane Pernet’s film festival opening Paris Fashion Week), Cory Kennedy showed, separate from her xbf L.A. Native Mark Hunter (the Cobrasnake), who showed with Atlanta de Cadenet (New Roads High) showed up together – Atlanta, hipster extraordinaire, is the daughter of Amanda de Cadenet and Duran Duran band member John Taylor, who is now married to Gela Taylor, the G in the P&G of Juicy Couture. John and Gela were also in attendance.Senior West Coast Editor of Vogue Lisa Love with Eva Mendes, DJ A track, Marisa Tomie, Chloe Sevigny (in Mui Mui SS ’10) and Liz Goldwyn (in Sonia Rykeil  SS ’10 pajama evening suit) attend MOCA NEW 30th anniversary gala

Jared Najjar and Lee Najjar, photographer PC Valmorbida,  designer-now-director Tom Ford and artist Takashi Murakami attend MOCA’s 30th anniversary after party hosted by Dasha Zhukova and Pop Magazine

Atlanta de Cadenet and Mark Cobrasnake Hunter, John Taylor and Gela Nash, Cory Kennedy attend MOCA’s 30th anniversary after party hosted by Dasha Zhukova and Pop Magazine

Restaurateur and L.A. Native Harry Morton, British ex-pat Nellee Hooper, Neil Patrick Harris and boyfriend David Burtka attend MOCA’s 30th anniversary after party hosted by Dasha Zhukova and Pop Magazine

Katie Danza (daughter of Tony) and Elizabeth Kott, Gia Coppola (granddaughter of Francis) and Tracy Antonopoulos, L.A. Native-turned-Moscow Gallerina Dasha Zhukova attend MOCA’s 30th anniversary after party hosted by Dasha Zhukova and Pop Magazine

Artist and promoter Louis Carreon said “It was a breath of fresh air – a sexy mix of art and pop culture in Hollywood’s newest art venue! (prism on sunset). One attendee said some people were saying the stage was too small for the ballerinas but that everyone could agree on one thing – It was an important night for L.A.

Griffin, who directed Rodarte’s last fashion film video with Jenny Lewis, attended the after party, which was co-hosted by the Rodarte sisters and Grey Goose. The fashion film director said it was weird that not a lot of people outside these circles seemed to know about the event. The next he commented no one was blogging online and even the major outlets didn’t have stories. Just a bunch of photos with captions lying around the net. Even Style.com which normally would hit such a thing.

A lot of people can’t comprehend the concept that this event marks the turning point of art in L.A. because it is the first time THE RIGHT people have demonstrated how to fuse dance and art with fashion and Hollywood. Soon it will be the norm to expect art collaborations in your fashion and  operettas sung to you as you enter a party and wild dance performances as basic entertainment. It will be as expected to know major art world patrons, artists and galleriest as we now know celebutantes, A List actors and reality “actors”.

Elliot Hans and Kaya B Johnon (of Literature Noir) and Griffin

But one naysayer has little faith in Los Angeles’ ability to change. “One of the things that is really a plus for NYC is that you can go to Times Square and see the premier of Madame Butterfly @ Lincoln Center on the big screen if you don’t attend the show. There are like 1,000 chairs in front of the huge TV and red petals everywhere! It was such a beautiful idea and really brought people together. What do we have? TMZ! Its such a trek to have to go downtown to see a show… Not even as good of a show as u would see on Broadway or off Broadway… NOT TO MENTION that in NYC u dress up to go c a show and in la people wear sweats and work out clothes. I was so disappointed last year when I went to multiple opera’s and people were like super casually dressed. I’m going to take my aggression out on la and go to London / Paris / Austria, to see a show dressed in a ball gown with spectacles. Sooooo annoying to me because people LOVE art here and we don’t have a good selection ”

We disagree … There is an art and performance art revolution in the making and we are on it! Watch this video from Vogue.com featuring Annie Leibowitz and Grace Coddington – they agree and are planning an incredible performance arts issue for December featuring none other than Lady Gaga! See a pattern people?? In it, Grace says it was “Anna’s” idea to bring in Lady Gaga. Looks like we are not the only ones obsessed with the “performance arts” lately!

Not yet mentioned are the charitable donations from art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad has given the art world in L.A., international super-dealer and co-chair Larry Gagosian, and MOCA board of trustee and gala co-chair Maria Arena Bell and her family. Eli Broad is about to open a new museum in Beverly Hills called THE BROAD CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION. He is currently considering the Starbucks building and adjacent lots across the street from The Peninsula Hotel on little Santa Monica Blvd.

Gwen Stefani & Guy Ritchie watch performance

Bolshoi dancers

Eli Broad and wife Edy, Franscesco Vezzoli & Lady Gaga

Kate Beckinsale, Gore Vidal

Peter Dundas& Ciara, Kelly Lynch

Takashi Murakami & Pharrell Williams, Bob Eiger

Related posts:

• Why the MOCA Gala this weekend will change everything in art forever, thanks to Lady Gaga, Francesco Vezzoli and Dasha Zhukova

• L.A. Native Jared Najjar open New Gallery PRISM on Sunset Blvd with Austrailia “It” boy PC Valmorbida, fanning the flames for an art revolution in Los Angeles

Photos from Wireimage, Stephanie Keenan/Patrick McMullan our gala attendees.

(Oh and by the way – Someone needs to alert Wireimage that Jim Wiatt was fired a few months ago from WME … they would prob sue the wire if they saw the oversight.)