'Transformative' Tisch Donation Means New Wing for Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute

A $10 million donation from Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch will launch the renovation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s Costume Institute and fund the creation of a 4,200-square-foot gallery for the collection, which tripled in size with the 2009 addition of the Brooklyn Museum’s sartorial stash. “Truly transformative” is how Museum director Thomas P. Campbell described the Tisches’ gift, announced this week. “The Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery is designed as a distinctly flexible space, so the possibilities for creative interpretations of the collection are unlimited,” he said in a