Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Exhibition Extended Thru 8/7

The Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition organized by The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been extended by one week. The new closing date is August 7. The exhibition, which opened to the public on May 4, has already drawn more than 180,000 visitors.

Because of the high demand, the Museum will also introduce Met Mondays with McQueen-a program offering new, additional hours that the exhibition galleries will be open-beginning on June 6. Visitors may purchase tickets for special viewings on upcoming Mondays when the Museum is closed to the public. Monday access will be available from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The special viewing rate will be $50 per person with entries on the half hour, and will include a free Audio Guide to the exhibition. Tickets will be available in early June on-site at the Met as well as on the Museum's website at www.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen. (Met Mondays with McQueen will not be offered on Monday, July 4, because it is a Met Holiday Monday, one of the annual series of Monday holidays when the Museum's galleries are open to the public.)

On Tuesdays through Sundays, through the run of the exhibition, Museum Members are provided express entry to the exhibition, allowing them to skip the lines to enter the exhibition. Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty has been drawing crowds since opening day, May 4, which had the highest attendance of any public opening day for a Costume Institute exhibition; that attendance was second at the Met only to that of Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings in 2005.

The exhibition is made possible by Alexander McQueen^TM.

Additional support is provided in partnership with American Express and Condé Nast.