Met Gala 2026 celebrates Costume Institute's new Condé M. Nast Galleries
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Updated · The New York Times · May 4
Met Gala 2026 celebrates Costume Institute's new Condé M. Nast Galleries
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 4
Summary
The 11,500-square-foot space replaces the institute’s former 4,300-square-foot basement galleries at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Beyoncé joining Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour as co-chairs.
The new galleries, created in the former gift shop by the Great Hall, give fashion a prominent permanent home and allow the next Costume Institute exhibition to run for nine months.
The gala also marks a symbolic shift for an institute long treated as secondary within the Met; Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are honorary chairs and key funders.