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Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
The Met Wraps Up Fiscal-year 2025 With 5.7 Million Visitors
Having reeled in more than 5.7 million visitors to its two locations The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters for the fiscal year 2025, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has seen more visitors walk through its doors compared to the fiscal year 2024. The Met's overall attendance has ticked up 5 percent since fiscal-year 2024. Tristate-area residents have helped boost the numbers. For the second consecutive year, the turnout among local visitors from New York, Connecticut and New Jersey has exceeded pre-pandemic figures. That has contributed to a 109 percent post-pandemic rebound compared to 2019. For fiscal-year 2025, which ends on June 30, local attendance accounted for 62 percent of the Met's overall visitors. In addition, domestic out-of-state visitors accounted for 23 percent of the foot traffic. More from WWD Houbigant Paris, a 250-year-old Niche Fragrance Brand, Reawakens Fashion Designer B Michael Honored at Smithsonian for Donating Couture Items Worn by Cicely Tyson The City of Light Goes Dark for Haute Couture Fall 2025 The opening day for the general public of the much anticipated Michael C. Rockefeller wing on May 31 was a winner for the Upper East Side cultural institution. That unveiling resulted in highest single-day attendance since 2017. The museum welcomed 33,700 visitors, and many no doubt headed for the redesigned wing to see the collections of the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania. The $70 million renovation had been a multiyear endeavor. Huastec artwork that was donated by the late fashion designer Mary McFadden, an intrepid traveler for decades, is among the objects. 'We are thrilled by the continued growth of our audiences, particularly across New York City and the surrounding area, with visitors showing incredible enthusiasm for our ambitious programming,' said Max Hollein, the Met's Marina Kellen French director and chief executive officer. 'Whether through our thought-provoking exhibitions, inventive educational initiatives, or wide-ranging digital offerings, the Met provides an array of ways to engage with our collection spanning 5,000 years of art from across time and around the world.'It's worth noting that 40 percent of the Met's fiscal-year guests said they planned their trips to see a specific presentation. Some of the main attractions include the museum's summer blockbuster 'Sargent and Paris,' which has pulled in more than 427,000 visitors to date. There is still a little time to buy tickets for thosewho want to explore John Singer Sargent's early days in Paris from 1874 through the mid-1880s. The exhibition at the Fifth Avenue museum is on view through Aug. 3. Another key exhibition has been the Costume Institute's 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,' which has registered more than 291,000 visitors. That fashion extravaganza, which millions associate with the Met Gala, runs through Oct. 26. Some of the Met's other strong suits for fiscal-year 2025 have been 'Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature' with 300,000 visitors and 'Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350' with 298,000 guests. Interestingly, the last months of two other shows — 'The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism' and 'Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion' — pulled in 464,000 and 401,000 visitors respectively. The chronically impatient or just highly organized managed to minimize any wait times by taking advantage of the Met's 'more expedited' ways to enter the museum's galleries. Forty percent of the visitors did just that and not just via online ticket sales or scannable membership cards. The Met recently rolled out an online ticketing option for New York State residents to reserve pay-what-you-wish tickets from its site. Of course, like every other museum in the world, the Met is trying to broaden its digital reach. The Met's site had more 27 million-plus visits in fiscal-year 2025, of which 35 percent were from outside the U.S. The museum's social media reach is robust — its Instagram has more 4.5 million followers, the museum's 'X' has more than 4.1 million, its Facebook has passed 2.3 million, its TikTok has more than 1.2 million and the Met's LinkedIn has more than 430,000 followers. Some additions for the museum this year were the debuts of official channels on Chinese-language social media platforms Weibo and WeChat, which have racked up 66,500 and 27,500 followers, respectively. Best of WWD Fashion Meets Cinema: Jaws 50th Anniversary and Calvin Klein Spring 2019 RTW Show Retro Glamour: Giorgio Di Sant'Angelo's Summer 1973 Chic Straw Hat Statement The Story Behind Jackie Kennedy's Cartier Watch: A Royal Gift With 'Traces and Clues of Her Life' Revealed Solve the daily Crossword
Time Out
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
A record number of museumgoers attended The Met this spring
'If you build it, they will come' doesn't just apply to baseball ghosts. As it turns out, it also applies to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which just discovered that it hosted over 5.7 million visitors between The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters in the 2025 fiscal year. (That would be financial talk for the 12-month period that ended on June 30, 2025.) Part of that growth came late in the tracking period, with a big ol' day party celebrating the new The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing on Saturday, May 31, which was the Met's highest single-day attendance record since 2017. How many people could possibly swing through The Met in a single day? Turns out, 33,700. That's a lot of stickers. Exhibitions still on view from this period are Sargent and Paris (427,000 visitors and counting), which closes August 3, and Superfine: Tailoring Black Style (through October 26), which has had 291,000 guests. Previous exhibitions were Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature (300,000 visitors), Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 (298,000 visitors), and the final weeks of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism (464,000 visitors) and Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion (401,000 visitors). 'We are thrilled by the continued growth of our audiences, particularly across New York City and the surrounding area, with visitors showing incredible enthusiasm for our ambitious programming,' Max Hollein, The Met's Marina Kellen French Director and CEO, said in a statement. 'Whether through our thought-provoking exhibitions, inventive educational initiatives, or wide-ranging digital offerings, The Met provides an array of ways to engage with our collection spanning 5,000 years of art from across time and around the world.' Overall, The Met saw a 5-percent growth in attendance over fiscal year 2024; 62-percent of the visitors were locals from the tri-state area. Upcoming exhibits at The Met include The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am (September 12–June 9, 2026), Man Ray: When Objects Dream (September 14–February 1, 2026), Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson (September 20–February 8, 2026), Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages (October 17–March 29, 2026), and Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck (December 5–April 5, 2026).
UPI
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
Josh Lucas marries Brianna Ruffalo in Vatican City
Josh Lucas is a married man. He and his fiancee Brianna Ruffalo tied the knot in Vatican City over the weekend. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo July 21 (UPI) -- Actor Josh Lucas married meteorologist Brianna Ruffalo in Vatican City over the weekend. The Sweet Home Alabama and Yellowstone star shared photos of him and his bride all dressed up in two Instagram posts. Lucas is wearing a dark suit and Ruffalo a white lace, strapless gown and veil. The actor thanked everyone who helped "make the dream of wedding in the #vatican come true." In her own post, Ruffalo wrote: "Mr. and Mrs. Incredibly blessed to receive this sacrament together inside the heart of the Catholic Church and holy city." Lucas replied in the comments: "I love you! Easily one of the greatest days of my life. I am so so grateful." The couple announced their engagement last summer. Stylish couples shine at 2025 Met Gala Alicia Keys (L) and her husband Swizz Beatz arrive on the blue carpet at the 2025 Met Gala celebrating the opening of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 5, 2025. Keys is wearing a red Moncler suit. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
The Star
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
Stars and their watches: Celebrities' wrists sparkle and dazzle at the Met Gala
Making his Met Gala debut, a member of the K-pop group Seventeen, walked the red carpet wearing a Piaget Polo diamond watch. The Met Gala, an annual fundraising gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City, celebrated the Costume Institute's new exhibition, 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style', this year. One of the biggest events in fashion, many of the world's most famous and influential came dressed in their luxurious best for a historic Met Gala that paid tribute to Black fashion and emerging designers for the first time. This was also a first in more than 20 years, for a menswear theme at the event that ignited a showcase of creativity and bold interpretation. Together, the stars from the fashion, entertainment, sports and business world raised a record of US$31mil for the Met's Costume Institute.
UPI
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Anna Wintour stepping down as American Vogue's editor-in-chief
1 of 4 | Anna Wintour arrives on the red carpet at the Met Gala on May 5. She is stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief, she announced Thursday. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo June 26 (UPI) -- Anna Wintour is stepping down from her post as American Vogue's editor-in-chief after nearly four decades at the magazine's helm. News that Wintour, 75, is on the hunt for a new editorial content lead arrived during a Thursday staff meeting, WWD reported. Sources confirmed the news to the New York Post. Wintour took over as Vogue editor-in-chief from Grace Mirabella in 1988. She also serves as Condé Nast's chief content officer, and will continue in that role, leading brands such as Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, AD, Conde Nast Traveler, Glamour, Bon Appetit, Tatler, The World of Interiors and Allure. She has been navigating both positions since 2021, as well as serving as global editorial director at Vogue. She will continue in that position, according to Variety. Wintour previously said she had no plans to step down at Vogue. "This morning His Majesty asked me if this meant I was going to stop working and I said firmly, 'No,'" she said during a February ceremony, per the Post. "It makes me even more convinced that I have so much more to achieve." In addition to her work at Vogue, Wintour has served as lead chair of the Met Gala for nearly 40 years. Colman Domingo, Pharrell Williams arrive at 2025 Met Gala Met Gala chair Colman Domingo arrives on the red carpet at the 2025 Met Gala celebrating the opening of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 5, 2025. Domingo is wearing a custom look by Valentino that features a blue cape and gold lamé collar. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
