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Lady Gaga (Getty Images)
Art lovers at the 20th annual benefit for the Watermill Center were surprised when Lady Gaga sauntered into the crowd with performance artist Marina Abramovic and the center’s director Robert Wilson. Gaga, her hair jet black, caused more of a stir than Hugh Jackman or Winona Ryder, especially after she bid $60,000 to buy an Abramovic work, a wall-mounted quartz brick. Diane von Furstenberg bid $100,000 for a video portrait to be done by Wilson. After the dinner and auction, emceed by Alan Cumming, adventurous guests danced with several women wearing nothing but body paint. Gaga even got into the act with one performance artist. “There was a casket with a totally naked woman laying in what looked like a pool of blood,” said a spy. “On a table nearby there was a row of little spoons — no one had touched them, because no one knew what they were for. [Wilson] gave two spoons to Gaga and Marina . . . and Gaga dipped the spoon right between the artist’s legs, and took a sip.” She then, “proceeded to lick the spoon.” Another performance artist startled Gaga when he “ran at her, but was then restrained by these rubber bungee straps and fell into a pile of dirt, and was clawing at the dirt.” When Gaga headed to the ladies room, spies said, her security cordoned off the area so she could have privacy. The crowd at the bash, dubbed “Devil’s Heaven,” included artists Cindy Sherman, Kenny Scharf and Dieter Esch, Campion and Tatiana Platt, Jay McInerney and Anne Hearst, Nicole Miller, Anthony Haden-Guest, Baby Jane Holzer, R. Couri Hay, Lisa Anastos and LuAnn de Lesseps. Gaga also paid $20,000 for a print by Dieter Meier, spies said.