![]() ![]() Providing an interpretative context for fashion’s engagement with Catholicism Heavenly Bodies exhibition has more than 150 ensembles, primarily womenswear, on view in the Byzantine and medieval galleries, in part of the Robert Lehman Wing, and at The Met Cloisters alongside medieval art from The Met collection. The last time the Vatican sent a loan of this magnitude to The Met was in 1983, for The Vatican Collections exhibition, which is the Museum’s third most-visited show. Featuring more than 15 papacies from the 18th to the early 21st century, these masterworks are on view in the Anna Wintour Costume Center galleries and include papal vestments and accessories, such as rings and tiaras. Heavenly Bodies exhibition features approximately 40 ecclesiastical masterworks from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, many of which have never been seen outside the Vatican. It is currently on show at both The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters and it is the largest Costume Institute exhibit in the museum’s history, spanning 25 galleries and 60,000 square feet. Neue Gallery: a friend photographed this.Heavenly Bodies exhibition is the name of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring 2018 Costume Institute exhibit.Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who’s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie. Graphic Lessons: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Graphic Lessons: Recent thirty-five-year-old widow Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a stabbed and dying man in the school kitchen, deals with the only witness to the stabbing – a troubled nine-year-old, develops a crush on a NYPD detective and her dog dies. Partner being stabbed while Kulchek was buying cigarettes? Escaping an attempted car bombing? His hated boss, Captain Dick Holbrook, being a trustee of the Windsor School? Losing his girlfriend to Holbrook? Graphic Lessons: NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek is assigned a murder case at the prestigious Windsor School. Then: Tomb of a Lady and probably a saint. Now: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination at the Cloisters It’s been a week filled with gardens and views of the Hudson. After going through several cloisters, halls, and rooms to look at and drool over the fabulous and enormous exhibit which is part of the Fashion and the Catholic Imagination at the Metropolitan and the Cloisters, we felt peckish and went to New Leaf, a charming restaurant in the park. We were treated to music and dance created by Bernstein and Jerome Robbins.Ī friend and I planned our visit to the Cloisters’ Heavenly Bodies so that we’d arrive early and escape before the crowds arrived. Bernstein, as everyone knows, would have been one hundred this year. ![]() ![]() We attended our final Studio 5 presentation. Studio 5 Celebrating Bernstein and Robbinsīoo-hoo. The real reason I went to the restored Quad was to see all the celebrities in the documentary who can afford $10,000- $20,000 a night. I can claim I’m a native New Yorker and the Carlyle is part of my DNA. Untermyer Park and Garden Untermyer Park and Garden ![]() So quiet, so green: a perfect antidote for the NYC bustle. Around us, restoration work was being done on the 1899 structure. We visited the mysteriously named Persian Garden which is filled with copies of Greek statues and columns. To the west is the Hudson and the Palisades. We had a delightful sun filled stroll around the forty plus acres. We decided to go to Untermyer Park and Garden and ignore rain threats. ![]()
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