What a great evening for the Cleveland Museum of Art and the city of Cleveland. Kudos to the staff of the CMA who put on one of the best parties I’ve seen in a long time.

The list of performers and DJs alone was impressive; Hot Club of Detroit, Balloon Bass Trio, Slavic Soul Party!, DJ Dan Deacon, NYC’s DJ Rekha. The crowd, like much of the music, was a melange of old-world types, monied museum patrons, well-healed suburbanites, hipsters, ravers, and in-betweeners.

But the best part (the surreal part, you might say) was seeing the museum’s galleries filled with people well past midnight on a Saturday in June. The energy was simply electric.

My friend Matt Moran and the band Slavic Soul Party! on stage at the CMA.

Part of Mark Reigelman’s “Wood-Pile” installation using 18,720 recyclable pool noodles and stretching 470 feet.