As beauty standards reach unsustainable extremes, the 2026 Met Gala’s Costume Art theme is a chance to re-center the natural human body.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, “Musings on a Glass Box,” view of screen in right gallery (all photos courtesy Luc Boegly) Visually, “Musings on a Glass box” looks kind of dumb in its bland emptiness, but ...

LOS ANGELES — Art wallops us emotionally because it transforms abstract, internal emotion into a real, external thing. Ideas and thoughts become elements we can see, hear, or feel in our hands. It’s ...