After walking the iconic steps of the Met Gala red carpet on Monday, stars were able to (figuratively) let their hair down. From star-studded selfies to casual cigar breaks, see how celebrities including Kendall Jenner, Sydney Sweeney and Madonna let loose inside NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Halle Bailey, Sydney Sweeney, and Lisa Getty Images…
Fashion aficionados, assemble! The 2025 Met Gala is officially here. Taking place tonight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City’s Upper East Side, the annual costume benefit sets the stage for some of the most talked about fashion moments for years to come. Each year, on the first Monday of May, attendees…
The Met Gala is back for 2025 in New York City, with a spotlight on Black style and tailoring. Here’s what to know about this year’s theme explained. Much of the buzz around fashion’s biggest night revolves around the so-called theme, which is based on the spring exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and…
Growing up on the south side of Chicago, the Reverend Dr Howard-John Wesley was given the message early on: what one wore as a black man mattered. Wesley’s pastor father, who moved from Louisiana after World War II in search of more opportunities than those readily available to black people in the Deep South, “always…
US State Met Gala 2025 red carpet timing as per US time zones Alabama – Birmingham Monday, May 5 at 5:00 p.m. Central Time Alaska – Anchorage Monday, May 5 at 2:00 p.m. Alaska Time Arizona – Phoenix Monday, May 5 at 3:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time Arkansas – Little Rock Monday, May 5 at…
The Met Gala is Monday in New York City, and we’re counting down with some of the most iconic looks from the best dressed stars, like recent darlings Zendaya and Rihanna and all the way back to the early years. Zendaya’s first and second look, 2024 Met Gala Zendaya attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating…
The 2025 Met Gala is around the corner. Ahead of its spring exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will host its annual gala on the first Monday of May. In February, the celebrity cochairs for the event were revealed, with Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour joining…
The four cavernous wings of Cambodia’s national museum are so packed with objects that visitors need to watch their elbows while strolling among the roughly 1,400 on display. The century-old building in central Phnom Penh is running out of room partly because foreign collectors and institutions have returned about 300 stolen artifacts over the past…
A Met Museum guard becomes a star – CBS News Watch CBS News Artist Armia Khalil emigrated to the U.S. from Egypt with nothing but $400 and a suitcase of sculpting tools. When his dreams of becoming a professional sculptor didn’t work out, he got a job as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum…
New York City — At times, Armia Khalil felt like he was whittling his life away after he immigrated to New York from Egypt in 2006 with nothing but $400 in his pocket and a suitcase of sculpting tools. He had studied fine art in Egypt through the generosity of a cousin, and now he…