The Metropolitan Museum of Art has named its 2026 Met Gala co-chairs. According to Vogue, Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams, alongside Anna Wintour, will shepherd the institution’s spring Costume Institute exhibition titled “Costume Art,” which will celebrate “the centrality of the dressed body in the museum’s vast collection.”
“It’s a huge moment for the Costume Institute,” Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the exhibition, told Vogue. “It will be transformative for our department, but I also think it’s going to be transformative to fashion more generally — the fact that an art museum like The Met is actually giving a central location to fashion.”
Here’s more on the 2026 Met Gala and other celebrities involved in next year’s first Monday in May.
Queen Bey has not attended a Met Gala since 2016’s ‘Manus x Machina’ event
According to Billboard, the co-chairs were announced in a video shared on Vogue’s social media accounts on Wednesday morning. Queen Bey’s name appeared alongside Kidman’s and Williams’ beneath a graphic of a white curtain that revealed a marble wall with the Gala’s “Costume Art” theme, and the entire visual was set to Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune.”
“At the 2026 #MetGala, the @MetMuseum will celebrate its spring @MetCostumeInstitute exhibition, titled ‘Costume Art,’” the caption read. “Set to host the fête? Major forces from the worlds of entertainment, sport, and, of course, fashion.”
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The 2026 Met Gala will mark Bey’s return to fashion’s biggest night after a decade away. The “Texas Hold ’Em” singer’s last gala appearance was in 2016 when she attended the “Manus x Machina” themed affair in Givenchy Haute Couture, Vogue reported.
Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz to co-chair 2026 Met Gala Host Committee
Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz have been announced as the 2026 Met Gala Host Committee’s co-chairs. The committee also includes members like 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.
Additional host committee members will be announced at a later date.
What to know about the ‘Costume Art’ exhibition and theme
The “Costume Art” exhibition will show garments and artworks from The Met’s collection, including historical and contemporary pieces from the Costume Institute. Featured pieces will be organized into “a series of thematic body types, ranging from the Naked Body to the Pregnant Body and the Aging Body,” Vogue noted on its website. The exhibition will also mark the first time a show will be held in The Met’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries.
“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 news release. “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.”
The “Costume Art” exhibition will be available to the public from May 10, 2026, through Jan. 10, 2027. A formal dress code for the 2026 Met Gala will also be announced at a later time.