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\n\tAmy Sherald brought one of her most beloved paintings to life for tonight\u2019s Met Gala, which was held to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Costume Institute.<\/p>\n
\n\tWith the help of designer Thom Browne, Sherald dressed up as the little girl in her 2014 painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)<\/em>, the work that won the artist the National Portrait Gallery\u2019s Outwin Boochever Prize and appeared on a New Yorker<\/em> cover last year.<\/p>\n \n\tThe painting, which is featured in a traveling Sherald survey that opens at Atlanta\u2019s High Museum of Art on May 15, features a young woman holding an oversized teacup and staring at the viewer. Sherald drew her inspiration for the work from Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tSherald, a member of the committee behind the Met Gala alongside artists such as Anna Weyant and Tschabalala Self, told Vanity Fair<\/em> of the process behind her outfit: \u201cWe\u2019ll be trying on the dress, and then also we had three different fascinators made to try to figure out which one I\u2019m going to wear with the dress, so she has on a red fascinator like the painting. And then what else, Thom?\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBrowne was personally contacted by Sherald about the project, which he said took more effort than he\u2019d initially expected. \u201cIt was a little later than I think we both would\u2019ve wanted, but I would jump through hoops to do it for Amy, because I just love what she does and I love everything that she represents,\u201d he told Vanity Fair<\/em>. \u201cAnd it\u2019s so humbling that when she says, if I was a painter, I would paint like her. There\u2019s very, very, very few people that could possibly paint like Amy Sherald.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tSherald\u2019s outfit was designed to fulfill the Met Gala\u2019s theme of \u201cFashion Is Art.\u201d As usual, the gala\u2019s theme corresponds to that of the Costume Institute\u2019s accompanying show, which is this year called \u201cCostume Art.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/amy-sherald-met-gala-look-explained-1234783879\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2274035240.jpg?w=1024″] Amy Sherald brought one of her most beloved paintings to life for tonight\u2019s Met Gala, which was held to benefit the Metropolitan Museum of Art\u2019s Costume Institute. With the help of designer Thom Browne, Sherald dressed up as the little girl in her 2014 painting Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), the work that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1919692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1919692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}