Final Sunday, New York’s Metropolitan Opera celebrated not one, not two, however three openings. There was “Behind the Seams: Costuming the Met,” that includes greater than 20 appears to be like and items associated to productions within the Met’s 2025–26 season, together with Carmen, La Traviata, and Tristan und Isolde. (The exhibit could be seen by Met ticketholders within the north and south galleries of Founders Corridor, on the opera home’s Concourse degree.)
There was additionally the corporate premiere of The Superb Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a brand new opera tailored from Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–successful novel of the identical identify, about two Jewish comic-book artists who invent a superhero to fight the rising risk of Nazism. After which, relatedly, there was the opening of Gallery Met’s “Tremendous Duper,” one other exhibition curated by Donatien Grau, the Louvre’s head of up to date packages, and longtime Vogue contributing editor Dodie Kazanjian.
“Tremendous Duper,” on view all through the opera home, includes new works by greater than 20 modern artists—amongst them Roz Chast, George Rental, John Currin, Cy Gavin, Rashid Johnson, Toyin Ojih-Odutola, Anna Park, Nicolas Celebration, Julian Schnabel, Dana Schutz, Lorna Simpson, and Anna Weyant—every given the identical transient: to contemplate what being a superhero means, or appears to be like like, right now. (The present’s solely pre-existing artworks are two contributions by the legendary comedian artist Artwork Spiegelman.)
Right here, seven artists concerned with the exhibition share their reply to the sign.
Joe Bradley
