The New Museum 2018 Spring Gala was hosted by Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum; Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director; and James Keith Brown, President. The night's honorees included artists Cecily Brown, Julie Mehretu and Elizabeth Peyton. 

Notable guests included Cecily Brown, Julie Mehretu, Elizabeth Peyton, Cindy Sherman, Michael Stipe, John Waters, Glenn Ligon, Cynthia Rowley, George Condo, KAWS, Nari Ward, Robert Gober & Donald Moffett, Maya Lin, Marilyn Minter, Matthew Barney, Alex Da Corte, John Currin & Rachel Feinstein, Ugo Rondinone & John Giorno, Dana Schutz, Terry Winters, David Salle, Peter Saul, Vija Celmins, Carolee Schneeman, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Lisa Yuskavage, Sam McKinniss, T.J. Wilcox, Lisa Phillips, Massimiliano Gioni & Cecilia Alemani, Karen Wong, Helen & Mirabelle Marden, Paula Cooper, Barbara Gladstone, Marian Goodman, Agnes Gund, Sadie Coles, Michael Ovitz & Tamara Mellon, Beth Rudin DeWoody & Firooz Zahedi, Simon de Pury, Tom Finkelpearl, Thelma Golden & Duro Olowu, Anne Pasternak & Mike Starn, Olivia Marciano, James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach, David Droga, Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan, Shelley Fox Aarons & Philip E. Aarons, Lonti Ebers & Bruce Flatt, Matthew Higgs, Susan and Leonard Feinstein, Eva Franch Gilabert, Jessica Craig-Martin, Yvonne Force Villareal and Charlotte Feng Ford.