Met Museum Cancels John Galliano Exhibition Amid Controversy over Designer’s Antisemitic Comments

In a surprising turnabout, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled a John Galliano exhibition that was due to open next spring, in what would’ve been the Costume Institute’s big May show for 2027.The show had faced controversy from the start as many fixed on antisemitic and anti-Asian comments by Galliano from more than a decade ago. He was convicted of a hate crime in France in 2011.The designer previously apologized for those comments and sought mental health counseling, and th