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The Met Gala, an annual fund-raising benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showcases the pinnacle of themed haute couture on its red carpet each year. From opulent to outlandish, notable figures and the Hollywood elite dress to impress — or at least make a splash.Last year’s unforgettable looks included Kim Kardashian controversially donning Marilyn Monroe’s glittering 1962 garment and Blake Lively’s ode to Lady Liberty in a dazzling copper and — after its unraveling — oxidized green gown.Alongside Anna Wintour, Conde Nast’s chief content officer and Vogue’s global editorial director, popstar Dua Lipa, actress Penelope Cruz, tennis player Roger Federer and screenwriter Michaela Coel will serve as co-chairs of the event.Here is everything else we know about New York’s most anticipated fashion extravaganza.To watch the biggest night in fashion unfold, stream the Met Gala’s red carpet arrivals and interviews on E! or Vogue’s website on May 1 beginning at 6 p.m.

features artifacts from the biggest spectacle in American sports –including the stunning Vince Lombardi Trophy and all 57 team rings from each winning squad.The show, “Beyond the Big Game,” highlights more than 150 iconic Super Bowl photos, memorable commercials and halftime performances that dominated post-game debates and social media.NFL fans can also snap selfies in front of the league’s championship trophy, as well as The Weeknd’s halftime show set from Super Bowl LV as part of the immersive exhibit.“It’s a little slice of football heaven,” Paley Center for Media president and CEO Maureen Reidy told The Post. “Really, there’s something for everyone here.”Here’s a look at some of the Super Bowl relics being showcased at the Manhattan exhibit, which runs through March 3:Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr tossed two touchdowns, leading the squad to a 35-10 victory over Kansas City in the first AFL-NFL showdown in 1967.

screen for the first time on February 10 as part of its “Beyond the Big Game” exhibit, which runs through March 3. The showcase, created with help from the NFL and Pro Football Hall of Fame, features more than 150 iconic photos, a treasure trove of memorabilia and viral commercials culled from nearly 60 years of play.But, the broadcast of the first Super Bowl is particularly special.“It is indeed the first public screening of the Super Bowl,” Simon said of the upcoming event, characterizing the footage as the “holy grail” of sports broadcasts.It was captured by pure happenstance.

BBC reports.The two tracks are featured on Bowie’s 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.” The sheet, which includes Bowie’s corrections, drafts and notes, is set to go on sale Tuesday via Omega Auctions.The memorabilia was once displayed by London’s V&A Museum before touring the world from 2013 to 2018 as part of an exhibit. Other items for sale include a lyric book once owned by Oasis’ Noel Gallagher that features lyrics from “She’s Electric,” “Going Nowhere” and “Champagne Supernova,” among other hits.

on Instagram Saturday that he has requested “improvements” to his wax figure that was recently unveiled at the Grevin Museum in Paris.“I knew my boy [Jefferson Jr.] had this Rock wax statue in his roasting crosshairs,” Johnson, 51, captioned a reposted video from “The Circle” alum James Andre Jefferson Jr. making fun of the figure.

Taylor Swift’s now international ‘Eras Tour,‘ we think we’re getting closer each and every day.As Swift’s globetrotting trek rages on with fans piling into stadiums by the masses, it seems that more and more Taylor inspired pop-ups are well, popping up! Whether you’re lucky enough to have scored tickets to one of the shows or a massive fan who is still trying to snag your spot on tour we have the best Swift-inspired pit stops that we think are the next best thing to seeing our girl live. So, are you ready for it?Without further ado, here are just a few ways to get your Taylor fix outside of the ‘Eras’ Tour currently running at the time of publication:This spot is definitely loud and proud decked out in completely pink decorr making it the perfect spot to set up an ‘Eras’ inspired photoshoot with friends or to spend the night jamming to your favorite Taylor bops. “Dive bar on the East Side, where you at?”It is rumored that Lovers of Today — located at 132 1/2 E 7th St, in the Big Apple — is the spot referenced in “Delicate” from Taylor’s iconic “Reputation” album.

to its website, offering what it calls a “fascinating learning experience” into failed innovation. “Every item provides unique insight into the risky business of innovation,” continues the site. “The museum aims to stimulate productive discussion about failure and inspire us to take meaningful risks.” The Museum of Failure showcases more than 159 retail items that didn’t quite take off, including the infamous and much-reviled Google Glass and the ill-fated DeLorean car, which was made famous by the “Back to the Future” franchise.Other items that made the museum’s not-so-hallowed halls include 1985’s Coke II — also known as New Coke and revisited in Season 3 of the mid-’80s-nostalgic Netflix series “Stranger Things” — as well as the 2003 Nokia N-Gage smartphone, which despite its failure in the US helped jump-start Finland’s mobile gaming industry.

more than 13.5 million views.“Come with me to the worst wax museum in Poland,” invites influencer Becka Blackburn in the clip.For the uninitiated, the Krakow Wax Museum — which boasts a measly 2.5 stars out of five on TripAdvisor — has become an international laughingstock for its dodgy celebrity wax figures, which are notorious for looking nothing like their subject matter. Highlights depicted in the video include a cock-eyed Donald Trump, a jaundiced Jack Sparrow and a David Guetta that looks more like the DJ and producer’s Cro Magnon ancestor.However, none hold a candle to the botched doppelgängers of Prince William, 40, and his wife, Kate Middleton, 41, who were infamously ripped in Prince Harry’s 2023 tell-all memoir “Spare.”Their less-than-flattering wax “lookalikes” depict Kate Middleton boasting a preternaturally large forehead and blond — rather than brown — hair.

9/11 Memorial Museum ($26), the Guggenheim Museum ($25), the Museum of Modern Art ($25), the Whitney Museum of American Art ($25), the American Museum of Natural History ($22 or pay-what-you-wish for NY, NJ and Conn. residents), the Brooklyn Museum ($16) and the Jewish Museum ($15).  Up until 2018, the Met’s pay-what-you-wish policy extended to visitors from around the globe, the last museum in the world to have such broad guidelines.

“Art of the Hollwood Backdrop” presents 22 immense canvases from classics like “North by Northwest,” “The Sound of Music” and “Ben Hur” that were were rescued from a musty MGM Studios basement.“The exhibition celebrates Hollywood’s masters of illusion and perspective, who heretofore have received little recognition for their talent or applause for their essential role in making film magic,” the museum said on its site.The backdrops, which are on loan from the University of Texas at Austin, were used in movies from 1938 through 1968, while some have not been tied to specific films.Curators Karen Maness and Thomas Walsh also sought to find and feature the forgotten artists behind each piece. The duo spent hours combing through oral histories and other archives and were able to identify about a dozen of the canvas creators.Maness, a professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book on the history of movie backdrops in 2016 and organized a similar exhibition at the college.That exhibit sold out regularly even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with attendees marveling at the gigantic Mount Rushmore canvas featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic thriller.“I carry it on with both a love of painting but also as an advocate for these artists to help them be seen in history.

Kleefeld Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach, which has undergone an ambitious renovation and expansion, will open next month with exhibits by two important and influential abstract artists: Linda Besemer, who identifies as queer, and Mark Bradford, who identifies as gay.

hosted more than its fair share of Instagram museums. But the new immersive experience, RiseNY — an assortment of random cultural artifacts paired with a theme-park ride, and shoehorned into an otherwise drab Midtown storefront — might be the most absurd yet. Now in previews in Times Square, this $28-per-person tourist trap offers audiences a “three-part journey” through the five boroughs’ history that will purportedly “help the city soar to new heights” as it “rebound[s] from the pandemic in an extraordinary way,” as the press materials for the exhibit say. In reality, it is a charmless, New York-themed highlight reel of pop art spread across three windowless floors.

The Cal State Long Beach art museum, which has undergone an ambitious renovation and expansion, will open next month with exhibits by two important and influential abstract artists: Linda Besemer, who identifies as queer, and Mark Bradford, who identifies as gay.

charging $120,000 for a banana was highway robbery, a Danish museum gave an artist $84,000 to use in a commissioned piece — only to have him pocket the cash and turn in two blank canvases cheekily entitled “Take the Money and Run.”The blank robbery occurred after the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg asked Danish artist Jens Haaning to re-create two of his prior works: 2010’s “An Average Danish Annual Income” and “An Average Austrian Annual Income,” first exhibited in 2007, CBS News

he claims is a long lost work by the Dutch master. But the museum has reason to think it’s a faux Van Gogh.As The Post previously reported, Pivar filed a complaint with the New York County Supreme Court on Tuesday alleging that the museum was negligent because it failed to view the painting in real life, and made its judgement based on pictures.

Reuters reported.The cache included Picasso’s 1939 portrait “Head of a Woman,” and Mondrian’s 1905 painting, “Landscape with a Mill,” a rare representational work from the Dutch cubist painter.A pen-and-ink sketch by Renaissance artist Guglielmo Caccia was originally included in the haul but discarded after being damaged shortly after the heist took place.The suspect, a construction worker, according to the Independent, acted alone in the early morning hours on Jan.

over Jane Austen’s connections with slave plantations.A museum dedicated to the “Pride & Prejudice” author, located at her old home in the Hampshire village of Chawton, is reportedly investigating the Austen family’s place in “Regency era colonialism,” as evidenced by Austen’s love of tea, clothing and other refinements.

on its website.This includes works that would not even be viewable to most museum visitors, including pieces that are on long-term loans abroad, in storage or otherwise not currently on display. It also includes works that were recovered following World War II and are pending return to their legitimate owners.“Today, the Louvre unveils its treasures, even the most unknown,” said Louvre director and president Jean-Luc Martinez in a press release.

Shelia Washington was instrumental in the exoneration of the Scottsboro Boys, nine young Black men who were wrongfully convicted of raping two white women in a famous 1935 case.The Scottsboro Boys – Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Andy Wright, Roy Wright, Olin Montgomery, Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, and Eugene Williams – were riding on a freight train through Tennessee when a white mob tried to force them from the train and later accused them of raping two white women.

MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania — It’s no surprise that a museum dedicated to zombies couldn’t stay in its grave for long.The Living Dead Museum, an institution dedicated to honoring the seminal 1968 zombie film “Night of the Living Dead” and its auteur, George Romero, had been a fixture in downtown Evans City since 2013.

reopening weekend at many city museums and other cultural institutions, pumping their fists triumphantly as they entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art Saturday for the first time since the coronavirus closed its doors on March 13.Masked Met visitors had their temperatures checked before browsing museum collections behind mandatory facemasks.The museum had been opened to members on Friday, but Saturday was the first day the general public could enjoy the exhibits.It was the first weekend after

months-long hiatus of the city’s beloved institutions since the coronavirus pandemic hit in March. Gyms and bowling alleys are also allowed to reopen with safety precautions, and movie theaters are expected to return next.Still, it won’t be a free-for-all in the galleries’ great halls once they’re open to the public.

Their doors are closed, but the art lives on — online. The city’s museums are sharing their treasures virtually, whether it’s a festival of home movies from Moma or a curated cocktail hour from the Frick Collection. Their Instagram accounts are full of so many tours, talks and craft activities that it’s overwhelming That’s why we asked a few curators to cull through their collections and pick a couple of pieces that bring them joy. With any luck, they’ll lift your spirits, too.

As the theme song for the old TV show “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” goes, “The world is a carousel of color . . . wonderful, wonderful color!”

PARIS — A miniature manuscript written by the teenage Charlotte Bronte is returning to her childhood home in West Yorkshire after it was bought by a British museum at auction in Paris.