In Full Bloom: NYC Galas & Benefits You Can Actually Attend This Spring

As NYC shakes off its winter blues and flowers begin to bloom, so does the city’s buzzing gala scene. From elegant soirées to inspiring benefit galas, now’s your chance to dress up, raise a glass, and make a difference. Both on the dance floor (hello afterparty!) and for a cause (benefiting some of your favorite New York institutions). Find below your guide to the must-attend spring galas in NYC.

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Updated 5/12/25

MARCH 2026

The New York Classical Theatre Gala
📅 Tuesday, March 24th, 6:30pm
📍 The Manhattan Penthouse, 80 Fifth Avenue
🏆 Honoring former Washington Post’s chief theater critic, Peter Marks, and philanthropists Susan and Ethan Falkove

The Jewish Museum Purim Ball + After Party 
📅 Monday, March 30th, 6:30pm-12am
📍 The Plaza, 768 5th Avenue
🎤 Hosted by Jonathan Crystal & Morris W. Offit
🏆 Honoring Vice Chairman and Board Member of Alliant Insurance Services, Inc., James W. Crystal

Autism Speaks Celebrity Chef Gala
📅 Tuesday, March 31st, 6-10pm
📍 Cipriani Wall Street, 55 Wall Street
🎤 Hosted by Maneet Chauhan
🏆 Honoring Anderson Center for Autism

APRIL 2026

Public Art Fund Party + After Party
📅 Wednesday, April 8th, 6:30-11:30pm (Afterparty 9-11pm)
📍 Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street
🏆 Honoring Artists: Genesis Belanger, Kambui Olujimi, and Juan Veloz

FIT Annual Gala + Afterparty: Threads of Impact
📅 Tuesday, April 14th, 6-9pm (Afterparty 9-11pm)
📍 Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue
🎤 Hosted by Ciara
🏆 Honoring Richard Dickson, President & CEO or Gap Inc.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala: Rhythms that Move the World
📅 Wednesday, April 15th, 7-10pm (Afterparty 10pm)
📍 Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street
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🎤 Hosted by Angela Bassett
🏆 Honoring Kathryn And Ken Chenault: Ed Bradley Award For Leadership In Jazz, Weedie Braimah: Jazz At Lincoln Center Award For Artistic Excellence, Joan Chamorro: Jazz At Lincoln Center Global Citizen Award

The Bronx Museum Gala + Afterparty
📅 Wednesday, April 15th, 6-9pm (Afterparty 9-11pm)
📍Tribeca Rooftop + 360°, 10 Desbrosses Street
🎤 Hosted by Marysol Castro
🏆 Honoring Awol Erizku, Lois Plehn, and KidSuper

Joyce Theater Foundation Gala
📅 Wednesday, April 15th, 6pm
📍City Winery New York City, 25 11th Avenue
🎤 Hosted Jesse Tyler Ferguson
🏆 Honoring Joyce Trustee, R. Richard Ablon, Gregg & Jean Frankel, and Nathan Hurlin

Youth America Grand Prix Gala
📅 Thursday, April 16, 7pm
📍 David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza
🎤  Hosted by Misty Copeland
🏆 Honoring Melanie Hamrick and Rebecca Hessel Cohen

Ad Age A-list & Creativity Awards Gala
📅 Monday, April 20th, 6pm
📍 The Glasshouse, 660 12th Avenue
🏆 Honoring 2026 Agency A-List & Production Company A-List

New York Academy of Art: Tribeca Ball
📅 Monday, April 20th, 8-10pm
📍 New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin Street
🎤 Hosted by Alan Cumming
🏆 Honoring Alan Cumming, Russell Wilkinson, Eileen Guggenheim

City Harvest Gala: Shaken Not Stirred
📅 Tuesday, April 21st, 6:30pm
📍 Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street
🎤 Hosted by Bowen Yang
🏆 Honoring CEO & Founder of Gracious Hospitality Management (behind COTE Korean Steakhouse), Simon Kim

CASA-NYC Supper Club
📅 Tuesday, April 21st, 6pm
📍 Tribeca Rooftop + 360°, 10 Desbrosses Street
🎤 Hosted by Lauren Scala, New York TV Personality
🏆 Honoring CASA-NYC Volunteer Advocate for Children and Families, Barbara Edwards Delsman, and Author Speaker, Rower, and Founder, Arshay Cooper

The Met Young Members Party: Renaissance Redefined
📅 Thursday, April 23rd, 7:30-11pm
📍 The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 5th Avenue

New York Harbor Sailing Foundation: The Sailors Ball
📅 Friday, April 24th, 9pm-1am
📍 Downtown Association, 60 Pine Street

New York Junior League: Savor the Spring ‘A Night Through the Decades’
📅 Saturday, April 25th, 7-11pm
📍 The Astor House, 130 East 80th Street

St. Jude Hope and Heritage Gala
📅 Saturday, April 25th, 6:30pm
📍Cipriani Wall Street, 55 Wall Street
🏆 Honoring founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Danny Thomas

New York City Children’s Theater 30th Anniversary Gala
📅 Monday, April 27th, 6-9pm
📍Elsie Rooftop, 1412 Broadway, 24th Floor
🎤 Hosted by Sandra Bookman
🏆Honoring Broadway performer & choreographer Stephanie Klemons and Common Sense Fund

New York Philharmonic Spring Gala
📅 Tuesday, April 28, 5:30pm
📍David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
🎤 Hosted by Gustavo Dudamel, Conductor and Evgeny Kissin, Piano
🏆 Honoring philanthropists Barbara Tober and the memory of Donald Tober

Creative Time Gala + Afterparty
📅 Tuesday, April 28th, 7-9pm (Afterparty 9pm-12am)
📍 The Russian Tea Room, 150 West 57th Street
🏆 Honoring practitioners Guadalupe Maravilla, Michelle Coffey, and Molly Gochman

Brooklyn Academy of Music Ball + Afterparty
📅 Wednesday, April 29th, 5-9:30 (Afterparty 9:30pm-late)
📍Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue
🎤 Hosted by Alexa Suskin and Robert Tichio
🏆 Honoring Robert Wilson, Director & Playwright (in memoriam), Gabriel Pizzi, Chair of BAM Endowment Trust

Girls Inc. Gala 
📅 Wednesday, April 29th, 6-9pm
📍Cipriani 25, 25 Broadway
🏆 Honoring Founder & CEO of Elizabeth Elting Foundation and Founder and former co-CEO, TransPerfect, Liz Elting; Chief Executive Officer & Board Member, Mastercard, Michael Miebach; and Emmy and Tony award-winning Actor, Singer, and Dancer, Bebe Neuwirth

Parkinson’s Foundation Spring New York
📅 Thursday, April 30, 6:30-9:30pm
📍PEAK NYC, 30 Hudson Yards, 101st Floor
🎤 Hosted by G. Stacey Solomon

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Gala
📅 Thursday, April 30th, 7-11pm
📍Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street
🏆 Honoring Assembly Member Rebecca A. Seawright, Christopher Spitzmiller, and Wilkinson Global Asset Management

Schomburg Centennial Gala
📅 Thursday, April 30th, 7pm
📍 NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 5th Avenue
🏆 Honoring Angela Bassett, Edwidge Danticat, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nikole Hannah-Jones, and Solange Knowles

 

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MAY 2026

Ice Theatre of New York Benefit Gala
📅 Monday, May 4th, 6:30pm
📍Sky Rink and The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers
🎤 Hosted by Dr. Tenley Albright, Timothy Goebel and Stephanee Grosscup
🏆 Honoring Nathan Chen

ArtsConnection Masquerade Benefit: The Golden Hour + Afterparty
📅 Tuesday, May 5th, 6-10:30pm
📍 Prince George Ballroom, 15 East 27th Street
🎤 Hosted by Harold Ford Jr.

WhyHunger’s Chapin Awards Gala
📅 Wednesday, May 6th, 6-10pm
📍 Cipriani 25, 25 Broadway
🎤 Hosted by La Chanze
🏆 Honoring Emmy Award-winning, GRAMMY Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, and Academy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actress, and activist Andra Day

Tenement Museum Gala
📅 Wednesday, May 6th, 6pm
📍City Winery New York City, 25 11th Avenue
🏆 Honoring oral historian and philanthropist, Nicki Newman Tanner; noted historian and President Emeritus of the Tenement Museum, Morris J. Vogel; and award-winning writer and poet, Clint Smith.

American Folk Art Museum Gala
📅 Wednesday, May 6th, 6:30pm
📍Mandarin Oriental, 80 Columbus Circle
🎤 Hosted by Jason T. Busch
🏆 Honoring self-taught artist Vanessa German; Broadway icon and talented quilter Harvey Fierstein; and folk art scholar, curator, collector, and our outgoing Board President, Elizabeth V. Warren

Asian Cultural Council Gala
📅 Wednesday, May 6th, 6:30-10pm
📍 Rainbow Room, 30 Rockefeller Plaza
🎤 Hosted by Alvarez Foundation, Peter & Katie O’Neill, Wendy O’Neill & David Rayner, Susan & David Rockefeller, and Mercedes Zobel
🏆 Honoring actress, producer, and humanitarian, Michelle Yeoh

New York City Ballet Spring Gala: Set in Stone – Creation & Preservation
📅 Thursday, May 7th, 7pm
📍David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza
🎤 Hosted by Donya Bommer, Melanie Hamrick, and Brynn Putnam
🏆 Honoring Principal Dancer, Tiler Peck

Music Will Benefit
📅 Thursday, May 7th, 6pm
📍Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway
🎤  Hosted by N’Kenge
🏆 Honoring Singer/Songwriter, Maren Morris; Hip-hop icon/business mogul, Master P; Grammy-winning producer/artists, T Bone Burnett; and COO of Red Light Management, Bruce Eskowitz

Viennese Opera Ball: Fairy Masquerade
📅 Friday, May 8th, 8pm-2am
📍Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street
🎤 Hosted by Jean Shafiroff

Hudson River Community Sailing: Dark ’n Stormy Benefit
📅 Monday, May 11th, 7-10pm
📍Frying Pan, Pier 66 Maritime

Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Artists Ball + Afterparty
📅 Monday, May 11th, 6-9pm (Afterparty 9pm-12am)
📍 Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
🎤 Hosted by Fabiola Beracasa Beckman, Sylvana Durrett, Jordan Roth, Lizzie Tisch, and Amanda Waldron
🏆 Honoring Dutch designer Iris van Herpen
🎶 Afterparty with Swizz Beatz

MoMA PS1 Annual Gala + After Party
📅 Tuesday, May 12th, 7-10pm (Afterparty 10pm)
📍MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens
🏆 Honoring MoMA PS1 founder, Alanna Heiss and former David Rockefeller Director, The Museum of Modern Art, Glenn D. Lowry

BronxWorks Lifting Lives Gala
📅 Tuesday, May 12th, 5:30-10pm
📍 583 Park Avenue
🎤 Hosted by Lynda Lopez
🏆 Honoring Principal & Chief Financial Officer
Wavecrest Management, Susan Camerata; BronxWorks Board Member, Principal, and PSF Projects Architecture, Barrett Feldman

Inner-City Scholarship Fund Friends Gala
📅 Tuesday, May 12th, 6:30pm
📍Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street
🎤 Hosted by The Barbara and Paul J. Curran Family

The Skin Cancer Foundation Champions for Change Gala
📅 Wednesday, May 13th, 6pm
📍Ziegfeld Ballroom, 141 West 54th Street
🏆 Honoring Senior Partner, WME Champions for Change Award, Adam Schweitzer, and Actress and Skin Cancer Prevention Advocate Impact Award, Michelle Monaghan

Freestyle Love Supreme Benefit for LUNGevity Foundation
📅 Wednesday, May 13th, 7-10pm
📍 Tribeca Rooftop + 360°, 10 Desbrosses Street
🎤 Hosted by Amanda Kouri

Guggenheim Young Collectors Council Party
📅 Thursday, May 14th, 9pm-12am
📍Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue

New York Cares Soirée
📅 Thursday, May 14th, 7-10pm
📍City Vineyard, 233 West Street
🎤 Hosted by
🏆 Honoring Director of Treasury at Marsh, Ally Walstad

The Paley Center for Media ‘Paley Honors’ Gala
📅 Thursday, May 14th, 6:30pm
📍 The Plaza, 768 Fifth Avenue
🏆 Honoring Chairman of the Management Board, CEO of Vivendi, and Chair of the Board of Havas Arnaud de Puyfontaine; Entrepreneurial leader and creator economy pioneer, Robert Kyncl; Charlie’s Angels (Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Cheryl Ladd)

Figure Skating in Harlem Gala – Igniting the Dream
📅 Monday, May 18th, 6pm
📍 Ziegfeld Ballroom, 141 West 54th Street
🎤  Hosted by Vlad Duthiers
🏆 Honoring champion for girls’ education and empowerment, Tina Lundgren, and Tony-winning Actress Anika Noni Rose

92NY Sharing the Light Gala
📅 Monday, May 18th, 6pm
🎤 Hosted by Juju Chang
📍 Cipriani Wall Street, 55 Wall Street
🏆 Honoring The Arnhold Family for their leadership in the arts and education, and their dedication to strengthening 92NY for generations; entrepreneur and author, Dov Seidman; and groundbrakring artist, Ephrat Asherie.

Queens Museum Gala + Afterparty
📅 Monday, May 18th, 6:30-10pm (Afterparty 10pm-12am)
📍Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
🏆 Honoring Artist, Derrick Adams and Queens Borough President, Donovan Richards Jr.

Manhattan Theatre Club Spring Gala
📅 Monday, May 18th, 7pm
📍 Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street
🎤 Hosted by Amber Ruffin
🏆 Honoring The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Lincoln Center Theater Gala: Man of La Mancha
📅 Monday, May 18th, 6:30pm
📍 Lincoln Center Theater, 150 West 65th Street
🏆 Honoring Academy Award winner, Robert Downey Jr., and Emmy Award-winning Producer, Susan Downey

Liberty Science Genius Gala
📅 Monday, May 18th, 6pm
📍 Liberty Science Center, 222 Jersey City Blvd
🏆 Honoring Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, Yann Lecun; De-Extinction Paleogenomicist, Beth Shapiro, Conqueror of Rare Diseases, Dr. David Fajgenbaum; STEM Advocate & Business Innovator, Josh S. Weston

Whitney Gala
📅 Tuesday, May 19th
📍 Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street
🏆 Honoring contemporary artist Julie Mehretu, longtime museum supporter and board member, Fern Kaye Tessler, and The Whitney’s Director Emeritus, Adam D. Weinberg

Smithsonian National Design Awards Gala
📅 Tuesday, May 19th
📍 National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green
🏆 Honoring Adobe, Thom Browne, Tory Burch, Tiffany & Co., Maya Lin, Jenna Lyons, Millerknoll, MacKenzie Scott, Martha Stewart, and Target
Also, Industrialist, philanthropist, and founder of Cooper Union, Peter Cooper; Pioneer of American landscape architecture and designer of Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted; Father of the modern skyscraper, Louis Sullivan; Pioneer of American interior and textile design, Candace Wheeler; and Visionary of American architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright

Chamber of Music of Lincoln Center
📅 Tuesday, May 19th, 6pm
📍Alice Tully Hall, Broadway & West 65th Street
🏆 Honoring world-renowned violin maker, Samuel Zygmuntowicz

American Ballet Theatre Spring Gala
📅 Wednesday, May 20th, 6:30pm
📍Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street
🏆 Honoring actress, director, writer, and producer Katie Holmes

Institute for Community Living Gala
📅 Wednesday, May 20th, 6-9pm
📍 The Pierre, 2 East 61st Street

Sesame Workshop Annual Gala
📅 Wednesday, May 27th, 6pm
📍Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street
🎤 Hosted by Craig Melvin
🏆 Honoring MetLife and Bestselling Author; Celebrated Journalist; CEO and Founder of Joy 101, Hoda Kotb

El Museo Del Barrio Gala
📅 Thursday, May 28th, 6:30pm
📍Mandarin Oriental New York, 80 Columbus Circle
🎤 Hosted by Victoria Espinosa, Karla Harwich, Karla Martinez de Salas, and María Eugenia Maury
🏆 Honoring philanthropists Isabel and Agustín Coppel, and Reggaeton superstar J Balvin

JUNE 2026

Lincoln Center Summer Gala
📅 Monday, June 1st, 5:30pm
📍David Geffen Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
🏆 Honoring Co-President of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Andreas C. Dracopoulos, and world-renowned ballet dancer, Misty Copeland

Two Ten Footwear Foundation Gala
📅 Tuesday, June 2nd, 6:30-9:30pm
📍 The Glasshouse, 660 12th Avenue
🏆 Honoring President and CEO of Rack Room Shoes, Mark Lardie, and EVP and GMM of Shoes, Accessories, Home, and Kids, Nordstrom, Tacey Powers

MoMA Party in the Garden + After Party
📅 Tuesday, June 2nd, 6:30pm (Afterparty 9pm-12am)
📍 The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street
🏆 Honoring Jo Carole Lauder, Betye Saar, and Martin Puryear

Brooklyn Botanic Gala Spring Gala + After Party
📅 Tuesday, June 2nd, 5:30pm-9pm (Afterparty 9-11:30pm)
📍 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 455 Flatbush Avenue
🏆 Celebrating Greenest Block in Brooklyn

PACT Freedom Awards
📅 Wednesday, June 3rd, 6-9pm
📍 Prince George Ballroom, 15 East 27th Street
🎤 Hosted by Jennifer Bisram
🏆 American Airlines, Executive Director of My Life My Choice, Audrey Morrissey, and Carroll Gardens Association

YMCA Heroes of New York Gala + After Party
📅 Wednesday, June 3rd, 6pm + After Party 8:30-10:30pm
📍 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue
🏆 Honoring President, Americas, Mastercard, Linda Kirkpatrick, and President & CEO, New York City Football Club, Brad Sims

Art Omi NYC Benefit
📅 Wednesday, June 3rd, 4:30-7pm
📍 Bryant Park Grill, 25 West 40th Street
🎤 Hosted by Francis J. Greenburger

Central Park Conservancy Taste of the Summer
📅 Wednesday, June 3rd, 7-10:30pm
📍 Bethesda Terrace in Central Park, at 72nd Street Cross Drive

Socrates Sculpture Park Gala
📅 Thursday, June 4th, 6:30 -9:30pm
📍 Spacetime CC, 30-40 Vernon Blvd
🏆 Honoring internationally renowned American sculptor & Alumna, Chakaia Booker, Materials for the Arts, and The Sidney E. Frank Foundation

+ POOL Spring Gala
📅 Monday, June 8th, 6-10pm
📍 WSA, 161 Water Street, 5th Floor

City Meals Chef’s Tribute
📅 Monday, June 8th, 6pm
📍 Cipriani South Street, 10 South Street

The Public Theater Gala
📅 Monday, June 8th
📍 The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street
🎤  Hosted by Award winner and two-time Tony nominee Shoshana Bean
🏆Honoring longtime board members, Peggy Cooper Davis & Gordon J. Davis and Benay & Steven Taub, JetBlue Airways, and A&O Shearman

Governors Island Sunset Soiree
📅 Tuesday, June 9th, 6-9pm
📍 Six Coasts by Smorgasburg, 146 Carder Road

The Museum of the City of New York’s Gala: Gotham Dreams + After-Party
📅 Wednesday, June 17th, 6:30-9:30pm (Afterparty 9:30pm-12am)
📍 Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 East 42nd Street
🎤 Hosted by Erich Bergen
🏆 Honoring civic leader and visionary philanthropist, Laurie M. Tisch; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of A-Rod Corp and Co-Chairman, Minnesota Timberwolves & Lynx, Alex Rodriguez; Grammy-nominated artist and entertainer, Ja Rule; and for her leadership at Partnership for New York City, Gotham Dreams, Kathryn Wylde

Young Fellows of the Morgan Mr. Morgan’s Summer Soirée
📅 Thursday, June 18th, 8-11pm
📍 The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue

Louis Armstrong House Museum Gala
📅 Thursday, June 18th, 6-9pm
📍 583 Park Avenue
🏆 Honoring Wynton Marsalis, jazz figure, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, visionary bandleader, and master educator; Morgan Stanley; and Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives

Prospect Park Alliance Soiree
📅 Saturday, June 20th, 5-10pm
📍 Prospect Park Peninsula, Well House Drive and West Drive