PHOTOS: Scene & Heard

Filmmakers Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton take a look at the selection of anonymous artworks.  (SMMoA / Steve Cohn Photography)

SMMoA board trustee Bruce Samuels, from left, Executive Director Elsa Longhauser and gallery owner Louis Stern are all smiles. Net proceeds for the museum topped $200,000.  (SMMoA / Steve Cohn Photography)

More than 600 works of art -- with their signatures concealed until after purchase -- were donated by emerging and established artists (Yoko Ono, Larry Bell, Nancy Rubins and Ed Moses among them).  (SMMoA / Steve Cohn Photography)

Santa Monica Museum of Art board trustee Laura Donnelley, with daughter Claire Morton, said of the show: “Some of the artists are very identifiable. Other artists donate pieces that are not typical, so I don’t know that I would ever recognize them.”  (SMMoA / Steve Cohn Photography)