If you ever needed proof of the increasingly high-powered glamour of the art world, look at which celebrity the Watermill Center in the Hamptons has just lined up for its annual summer benefit on July 30: Kanye West.

Robert Wilson, Watermill’s artistic director, will design the set and lighting for Mr. West’s performance. Mr. Wilson founded the center in 1992 in a former Western Union building.

A decade ago, the center — in Water Mill, N.Y. — started a year-round residency, inviting about 20 collectives and individual artists to spend two to four weeks developing work. Its International Summer Program this year brought 100 artists from 28 countries.

Next week’s benefit — called FADA: House of Madness, after Le Corbusier’s building La Maison du Fada (the Nutter’s House) — will also feature performances by Pussy Riot, the Russian punk-rock protest group; Anohni, the songwriter and singer formerly known as Antony Hegarty; and Bruce High Quality Foundation, an artists’ collective.