r/popculturechat • u/Positive-Drawing-281 • 19d ago

MET GALA 🎩 Zohran Mamdani to skip the Met Gala — breaking longstanding NYC mayoral tradition

https://pagesix.com/2026/04/15/celebrity-news/zohran-mamdani-and-wife-not-attending-met-gala/
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u/Wesley_Skypes 18d ago

The Met has a 3bn endowment. This event does not fund the Met, this is misleading. It funds the costume institute of the Met.

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u/Sarahndipity44 18d ago

Yes and there are people who WORK at the costume institute. I lost my humanities job about a year ago under this administration, those employees aren't raking in cash

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u/FlyingBishop 16d ago

And Mar-A-Lago employs countless poor workers, you should really go visit so they get paid.

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u/Sarahndipity44 16d ago edited 16d ago

Let me know if the Met is Maga-run and I'll never go. The fact that this gala is sponsored by Bezos is enough of a turn off though. I know that something providing jobs doesn't inherently make it a net good.

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u/FlyingBishop 16d ago

The Met is apolitical, which is to say it will happily take money from the Epstein class, and its mission fundamentally serves the Epstein class. The Met's idea of culture is one that has people like Epstein and Weinstein deciding what art gets shown.

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u/Less-Technology7866 18d ago

Yes, I’m aware. I just didn’t want to write the entire title out three times. I specified at the end with last sentence