Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams will join Vogue editor Anna Wintour as co-chairs of this May’s celebrated Met Gala fundraiser, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today.
The buzzy, high-fashion annual event is set for Monday, May 4, 2026, and heralds the May 10 arrival of Costume Art, the spring 2026 exhibition presented by The Met’s Costume Institute. The exhibition, which “will examine the centrality of the dressed body, juxtaposing objects from across the Museum’s vast collection with historical and contemporary garments from The Costume Institute,” will be the first show in The Met’s new nearly 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries adjacent to the Great Hall.
Costume Art will be on view at The Met Fifth Avenue from May 10, 2026, through January 10, 2027.
Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz were announced today as co-chairs of the Gala Host Committee, with 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.
Additional Host Committee members to be announced at a later date.
First-time host Williams takes the role seven years after younger sister Serena Williams co-chaired the event. Kidman co-chaired in 2003 and 2005, and Beyoncé was honorary chair in 2013. Wintour spearheads the annual event, which in 2025 raised $31 million.
Proceeds from the Gala serve as The Costume Institute’s primary source of annual funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and operations. The funds raised also support other Museum activities.
Costume Art, according to The Met, will focus on Western art from prehistory to the present, organized into a series of thematic body types that reflect their ubiquity and endurance through time and space. “These comparisons,” museum officials say, “will highlight the inextricable relationship between clothing and the body and reveal that artistic representations of the body are shaped by the garments that clothe them and that the garments, in turn, are shaped by the bodies which they clothe.”
The exhibit will pair works of art from the Met’s collections with examples of fashion through the years. Costume Art will be organized thematically by different body types, including the “Naked Body,” the “Classical Body,” the “Pregnant Body” and the “Aging Body.”