Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams Announced as Co-Chairs for the Upcoming Met Gala

The trio will join Anna Wintour as co-chairs for the annual fundraising gala, which has a “Costume Art” theme.

Beyoncé will make her return to the annual fashion even after a decade-long hiatus.

Venus Williams, Beyoncé, and Nicole Kidman will serve as co-chairs for the upcoming Met Gala alongside Anna Wintour. 

The Metropolitan Museum Art will celebrate its spring Costume Institute exhibition at the 2026 Met Gala. Titled “Costume Art,” the exhibition will explore the relationship between clothing and the body beneath.

Beyoncé returning as co-chair for the event will mark 10 years since she last walked the museum’s steps. In 2016, she attended the “Manus x Machina” gala in a Givenchy Haute Couture dress. Both Kidman and Williams have attended the event over the years, notably the “Superfine” gala this year. 

The all-woman lineup is a switch up from last year’s lineup, which featured Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell Williams. 

Other celebrities will have their hands in the planning of the event, notably Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz as co-chairs of the event’s Host Committee. Other members of the Host Committee include Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Alex Consani, Teyana Taylor, A’ja Wilson, and many more. 

The “Costume Art” exhibition, curated by Andrew Bolton, will include garments and artworks from The Met’s collection as well as various pieces from the Costume Institute. “Costume Art” will be the first show held in the museum’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries, a space of almost 12,000 square feet.

Artwork by Julie Wolfe. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“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. “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.”

Phased into a series of thematic body types, the show will feature the Naked Body, the Pregnant Body, and the Aging Body. 

The annual event serves as a fundraiser for the Met, with proceeds benefiting the Costume Institute’s exhibitions, publications, acquisitions and operations. The “Costume Art” exhibition will be open to the public from May 10, 2026 until January 10 of the next year.