SUPERFINEDROP 002MET GALA 2026
400LIVING SEATS REMAINING

THE GUEST LIST

WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN INVITED?

  1. A$AP Rocky
  2. Aaron Douglas
  3. Abbey Lincoln
  4. Abdias do Nascimento
  5. Aimé Césaire
  6. Alain LeRoy Locke
  7. Alberta Hunter
  8. Alexander Crummell
  9. Alton Mason
  10. Amiri Baraka
  11. André 3000
  12. André Leon Talley
  13. Archibald Motley
  14. Arthur Ashe
  15. Baloji
  16. Bayard Rustin
  17. Bessie Smith
  18. Bill Bojangles Robinson
  19. Billie Holiday
  20. Billy Eckstine
  21. Black Herman
  22. Bobby Short
  23. Cab Calloway
  24. Cam Newton
  25. Celia Cruz
  26. Charles Mingus
  27. Charles White
  28. Claude McKay
  29. Coleman Hawkins
  30. Colman Domingo
  31. Cornel West
  32. Countee Cullen
  33. Dapper Dan
  34. David Adjaye
  35. Diana Ross
  36. Dizzy Gillespie
  37. Don Cornelius
  38. Donald Byrd
  39. Donny Hathaway
  40. Dorothy Dandridge
  41. Duke Ellington
  42. Earl Grant
  43. Eartha Kitt
  44. Eddie Kendricks
  45. Edward Enninful
  46. Elizabeth Keckley
  47. Ernie Barnes
  48. Essex Hemphill
  49. Ethel Waters
  50. Eugene Bullard
  51. Fela Kuti
  52. Floyd Patterson
  53. Frederick Douglass
  54. George Bridgetower
  55. Gil Scott-Heron
  56. Gordon Parks
  57. Grace Jones
  58. Gregory Hines
  59. Harold Jackman
  60. Harry Belafonte
  61. Hazel Scott
  62. Herbie Hancock
  63. Huey P. Newton
  64. Iman
  65. Ira Aldridge
  66. Isaac Hayes
  67. Jack Johnson
  68. Jackie Wilson
  69. James Baldwin
  70. James Brown
  71. James Van Der Zee
  72. Janelle Monáe
  73. Jay-Z
  74. Jean-Michel Basquiat
  75. Jidenna
  76. John Coltrane
  77. Johnny Hartman
  78. Josephine Baker
  79. Jules Lion
  80. Julius Soubise
  81. Kelela
  82. Kofi Siriboe
  83. Kwame Brathwaite
  84. Langston Hughes
  85. Lena Horne
  86. Leontyne Price
  87. Lewis Hamilton
  88. Little Richard
  89. Lloyd Richards
  90. Lorraine Hansberry
  91. Louis Armstrong
  92. Madam C. J. Walker
  93. Mahershala Ali
  94. Malcolm X
  95. Marian Anderson
  96. Marsha P. Johnson
  97. Marvin Gaye
  98. Mary Church Terrell
  99. Masego
  100. Maxwell
  101. Miles Davis
  102. Moses Sumney
  103. Muhammad Ali
  104. Nat King Cole
  105. The Nicholas Brothers
  106. Nicholas Daley
  107. Nina Mae McKinney
  108. Nina Simone
  109. Nipsey Hussle
  110. Noble Sissle
  111. Olaudah Equiano
  112. Oscar Micheaux
  113. Otis Redding
  114. Ozwald Boateng
  115. Patrick Kelly
  116. Paul Robeson
  117. Pharrell Williams
  118. Prince
  119. Questlove
  120. Quincy Jones
  121. Ralph Ellison
  122. Ray Charles
  123. Richard Bruce Nugent
  124. Richard Roundtree
  125. Romare Bearden
  126. RuPaul
  127. Sam Cooke
  128. Sammy Davis Jr.
  129. Sidney Poitier
  130. Sly Stone
  131. Smokey Robinson
  132. Solange Knowles
  133. Stevie Wonder
  134. Stokely Carmichael
  135. Sun Ra
  136. Teddy Pendergrass
  137. Telfar Clemens
  138. Theaster Gates
  139. Thelonious Monk
  140. Tommie Smith
  141. Toussaint Louverture
  142. Tyler, the Creator
  143. Usher
  144. Virgil Abloh
  145. W. E. B. Du Bois
  146. Willi Smith
  147. Wynton Marsalis
  148. Yasiin Bey
  149. Yinka Shonibare
  150. Zora Neale Hurston