To add another wrinkle to the political complexity of the situation, the bust officially passed into private ownership, into the collection of James Simon, who helped fund many digs (including the Amarna one). So it was held in his private house until being donated to the museum in the early 1920s, when it went on…

The Met Gala is sort of a two-headed beast, I think. There’s the gala itself, which is entirely the Costume Institute’s baby, and they are in charge of all of the fundraising for the event and have control over it and it stands as their own largest fundraising event of the year (at least, according to google).