The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. is turning 40, and the institution is celebrating in style with a glitzy bash at New York's 4 World Trade Center on November 9. The reasoning for the location: fundraising is expected to be on a scale the museum has never previously seen.

Guests will gather to honor 40 of the world's most significant contemporary artists in recognition of the role they played not only in shaping the Hirshhorn Museum's legacy, but also the contemporary cultural landscape of present-day America.