Solange Knowles, Danny Meyer and Darren Walker Honor the Studio Museum in Harlem

After thinking about it for a moment, Thelma Golden estimated she’d had already attended about a dozen galas this season.

“It’s a wonderful way to feel the soul of the city,” she said.

But the gala closest to her heart took place on Monday evening to benefit the Studio Museum in Harlem in Midtown.

“This is our gala,” said Ms. Golden, the museum’s director and its chief curator for the last 20 years.

The evening, which raised more than $3.7 million, supports programs and exhibitions at the museum as the institution prepares to reopen next fall in a new, modern, terrazzo-stacked building in Central Harlem.

It was also a reunion for many of its 700 guests. Artists working in all types of media, along with gallerists, philanthropists, journalists, actors, businessmen and restaurateurs, packed into the Glasshouse, a sleek event space with views of the Hudson River.

“It celebrates our past,” Ms. Golden said, “and always, always our legacy, our present, and our projects in the future.”