NEW YORK – The Met Gala takes place every year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and 2024 is no exception. This is where the biggest names in fashion will offer their most beautiful and daring looks this Monday night.
Follow our arrivals on the red carpet here.
It wouldn’t be the Met Gala without the Met. La gala takes place every spring at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It regularly takes place on the first Monday in May, in 2021, when it was postponed to September due to COVID. Restrictions.
The Met Museum dates back to the 1800s. It currently houses more than a dozen collections comprising tens of thousands of collections that constitute “more than 5,000 years of art from around the world,” according to its website.
The museum spans two million feet on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue between 80th and 84th Streets on the Upper East Side. It is closed on Wednesdays, but open Thursday through Tuesday from 10 a. m.
Every year, the iconic steps of the Met parade on a runway for arrivals on the Met Gala red carpet.
The Met Museum was born from an idea in 1866 in Paris, France. The story goes that an organization of Americans sought to create a national institute to bring art and art education to the United States.
Founding father John Jay, who at the time ran the Union League Club in New York City, is credited with creating the concept and helping to bring it to life.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its doors to the public on April 13, 1870, in the Dodworth Building, about 25 blocks south of its current headquarters on Fifth Avenue in Rockefeller Center. Later, the museum acquired its first object, a Roman sarcophagus. year.
The Met then moved to Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street in Greenwich Village, before opening in its current location on March 30, 1880.
The museum also has a site, known as the Met Cloisters, at Fort Tryon in Upper Manhattan. It opened in 1938 and focuses on the art and architecture of medieval Europe.
The Met Gala raises money for the Met Museum’s Costume Institute and celebrates the start of its annual fashion exhibition. This year’s exhibition is titled “Sleeping Beauty: The Awakening of Fashion. “
The Costume Institute was originally called the Museum of Costume Art when it debuted in 1937, before merging with the Met in 1946.
The Met Gala was created in 1948 as a supper club known as The Costume Institute Benefit. The first themed gala was held in 1973.
Legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland oversaw the Costume Institute from 1972 until her death in 1989. She succeeded Richard Martin, Harold Koda, and its current leader, Andrew Bolton.
Bolton has hosted five of the institute’s major exhibitions, “Heavenly Bodies,” in 2018, which the museum says attracted more than 1. 65 million visitors.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to paint in a museum?Patrick Bringley, a former security guard at the Met Museum, has written an e-book about his time on the scenes, called “All the Beauty in the World. “
He calls it “extraordinary” and says there’s “a lot to explore. “
“When you spend eight to twelve hour days between those photographs that are so unhappy but so beautiful — you know, the ‘passion’ paintings, which is an old word that means suffering—it was extraordinary. “But then you come along another day and they send you to Egypt, they send you to Rome, you explore all of that. You stand in a corner and watch all those tourists come in and manipulate the art in their own way. “
Bringley said more than 500 security guards from other countries and backgrounds paint at the museum, and many are even artists.
So what’s the way to enjoy a day at the museum?
“Be speechless inside this wonderful museum. Be like a guard, walk around, calm your thoughts and get lost in this position that can make you feel pleasantly so small,” Bringley said. “But I also advise you, at least at some point, to turn your brain back on and fight those works of art. Find out what you think, pick your favorites, check out your own ideals about God and the cosmos and all the things that art deals with intimate things like life and death. “
The Met Gala will take place Monday night in New York City. Watch the CBS New York special at 8 p. m.