Once a year on the first Monday of May, the carpeted steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (“the Met”) become home to the most scrutinized costume party of the year. The dress code to end all ...

In 1962, J.G. Ballard published “The Garden of Time,” a short story about aristocrats overrun by “an immense rabble.” Now it’s the dress-code theme for the year’s most lavish ball. By Jim Windolf In ...

It teeters continually between psychodrama and parody, reveling in feelings that are simultaneously heightened and deflated, serving up characters who veer in their behavior from the operatic to the ...