Met Gala: date & chairs

The 2026 Met Gala is set for Monday, May 4, with Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos named honorary chairs as lead sponsors. (metmuseum.org) The Metropolitan Museum of Art said the fundraiser will again open the Costume Institute’s spring show, with Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour serving as co-chairs. The museum said the gala’s proceeds are the Costume Institute’s primary annual funding source for exhibitions, acquisitions, publications, and operations. (metmuseum.org) This year’s exhibition is called “Costume Art,” and it opens to the public on May 10, 2026, before closing on January 10, 2027. The Met said the show will use nearly 400 objects to pair garments with artworks across the museum’s collection. (metmuseum.org) The dress code is “Fashion is Art,” a broad prompt tied directly to the exhibition’s focus on “the dressed body.” Vogue Singapore reported that curator Andrew Bolton framed the show around how clothing and the body appear across the museum’s galleries and art history. (vogue.sg) That open-ended brief has become part of the early conversation around Sánchez Bezos, whose honorary-chair role puts extra attention on how one of the night’s most visible hosts interprets the code. ABC News, citing Vogue, reported that Bezos and Sánchez Bezos are lead sponsors for both the gala and the exhibition. (abcnews.com) The host committee adds another layer of celebrity power: Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz are listed as chairs, with members including Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, LISA, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, A’ja Wilson, and Amy Sherald. The Met added Adut Akech, Angela Bassett, Sinéad Burke, Rebecca Hall, Aimee Mullins, Tschabalala Self, and Chase Sui Wonders in its February announcement. (metmuseum.org) The first Monday in May remains the fixed point. On May 4, the museum gets its annual red-carpet spectacle; on May 10, the wider public gets the exhibition those guests previewed six days earlier. (metmuseum.org; abcnews.com)