At the 2026 Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate its spring Costume Institute exhibition, titled “Costume Art”—and set to co-chair the fête are major forces from the worlds of entertainment, sport, and, of course, fashion: namely, Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and of course, Anna Wintour.
As Vogue reports, this spring’s event will mark Beyoncé’s first Met Gala appearance in a decade—she last walked the Met’s steps in 2016, when she attended the “Manus x Machina” gala in Givenchy Haute Couture. Kidman and Williams, meanwhile, have made regular appearances over the years, including at the “Superfine” gala this past May. (There, Kidman wore sculptural, vintage-inspired Balenciaga, while Williams opted for a custom tennis skirt, polo, and cape by Lacoste.)
And the news doesn’t end there: Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz will co-chair the 2026 Met Gala Host Committee, with additional members including Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, LISA, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson, and Yseult. (More host committee members will be announced at a later date.)
“Costume Art,” curated by Andrew Bolton, will explore the relationship between clothing and the body beneath. The show—organized into a series of thematic body types, ranging from the Naked Body to the Pregnant Body and the Aging Body—will include garments and artworks from across The Met’s vast collection, and feature both historical and contemporary pieces from the Costume Institute. Moreover, “Costume Art” will be the first show held in The Met’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries, a nearly 12,000-square-foot space adjacent to the Great Hall.
“I wanted to focus on the centrality of the dressed body within the museum, connecting artistic representations of the body with fashion as an embodied art form,” Bolton said in a release today. “Rather than prioritizing fashion’s visuality, which often comes at the expense of the corporeal, ‘Costume Art’ privileges its materiality and the indivisible connection between our bodies and the clothes we wear.”
Each year, the Met Gala serves as a major museum fundraiser, with proceeds benefiting the Costume Institute’s exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and operations. The “Costume Art” exhibition will be on view to the public from May 10, 2026, through January 10, 2027. The evening’s formal dress code will be announced soon.
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