New York After Dark: MET GALA 2026 · PRIVATE VIEWING ROOM

  • While the world watches the Met Gala unfold on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum, we invite you into a virtual salon: art that captures the spirit of New York in all its color.
     
     

  • The Collection

  • Art & The City

    Art & The City

    On the night of the Met Gala 2026, we turn our gaze to the art that defines New York's enduring cache. Our curated viewing room brings together works by artists who have made the city their muse, their studio, and their subject.

     

    Hunt Slonem, one of New York's most recognized living painters, works from his legendary Manhattan studio. His neo-expressionist canvases hang in collections from Fifth Avenue to Zurich. Alexi Torres reconstructs cultural memory stitch by stitch. His Thread Works, portraits and icons sewn onto black canvas, and his landmark Unbrainwashable series ask the same question of every viewer: are you thinking for yourself?

     

    David Yarrow brings the cinematic weight of Wall Street to the wall. Shot against the white Georgian marble of the NYSE and the mythology of American finance, his monumental monochrome prints, Once Upon a Time in America and Wall Street Stories, are among the most sought-after photographs in the world. Xan Padrón does something no other photographer does: he holds still while the city moves. His Time Lapse composites of Chelsea Piers and the East Village layer hours of passing life into a single frame: a portrait not of one person, but of a place and its people entire.

     

    Whether you are in New York for Met Gala week or following fashion's greatest evening from afar, this is your private gallery — open to serious collectors, always by appointment.

     

  • Featured Artists

    Hunt Slonem

    Born in Maine, forged in New York. Slonem's studio practice—spanning five decades and rooted in Manhattan—has made him one of the most collected American painters alive. His bunnies, tropical birds, and neo-expressionist portraits occupy collections from Sutton Place to Zurich.

     

     

  • Xan Padron

    Xan Padrón arrived in New York with a musician's ear for rhythm. His Time Lapse series, begun in 2011 after years of New York street projects, is one of the most original bodies of work in contemporary photography.

     

    Padrón conceals himself and his camera, then shoots a single urban wall or backdrop for hours, days, sometimes multiple seasons. The resulting composite layers dozens, sometimes hundreds, of passersby into a single, seamless frame. Inspired by sheet music, each figure is a note; together they form the full score of a neighborhood.

      

  • David Yarrow

    At twenty years old, David Yarrow photographed Diego Maradona lifting the World Cup for The Times of London. That image announced a career defined by once-in-a-lifetime access and an uncompromising eye for the decisive frame. 

     

    His New York work carries that biography. Once Upon a Time on Wall Street,  shot on a quiet day against the white Georgian marble of the NYSE's Corinthian facade, is as much a statement about power, nostalgia, and American mythology as it is a photograph. Wall Street Stories continues that meditation. Cinematic, monochrome, and monumental in scale, these prints sell through Sotheby's and command rooms the way few photographs can. 

     

     

  • Alexi Torres

    Born in the village of Bermeja, Cuba, Torres arrived in the United States in 2003 with a practice already shaped by political urgency and agrarian ritual. He begins and completes each work on a waning moon, following the lunar cycles of his ancestors, a discipline that gives his output an almost ceremonial weight.

     

    His Thread Works are among the most technically singular objects in contemporary art: portraits and cultural icons reconstructed entirely on black canvas. Works that dissolve the boundary between painting and textile, image and idea. This Unbrainwashable series reminds you to think for yourself. 

     

     

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