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From Standing Ovations to Surprise DJ Sets: Inside the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2026 BAM Ball

A moving tribute to Robert Wilson, the New York premiere of 'Moby Dick' and a surprise appearance by Talib Kweli made for one of the gala season's most genuinely unpredictable evenings.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has never been conventional, and the same is true of its much-anticipated spring benefit gala, the annual BAM Ball. Earlier this week, a culturally clued-in crowd convened in the cavernous Adam E. Max Gathering Space for a monochromatically outfitted evening that moved from cocktails and the step-and-repeat through to a seated dinner and speechifying and finally, the New York premiere of Robert Wilson’s acclaimed Moby Dick—a production that transforms Herman Melville’s saga of obsession and vengeance via tart dialogue and soaring ballads by British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi.

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