The show surpassed its prior number-one, 1978s 'Treasures of Tutankhamun,' by more than 298,000 people. Covering more than 60,000 square feet of space, the exhibition, which was curated by Andrew Bolton, is also one of the largest to have been mounted at the museum. Heavenly Bodies Was The Mets Most-Visited Exhibit Ever. I thought it would be hard to top the glory that was the Comme Des Garcons exhibit of 2017.but the Heavenly Bodies theme was beautiful.
In the basement gallery are vestments on loan from the Vatican. The costume exhibit at The Met, arranged annually by notorious H.B.I.C of Vogue, Anna Wintour, is the highlight of any fashionistas year (or maybe the nightmare of some close to it). This visit was my first to New York and while there are thousands of reasons to return to the city, going to The Metropolitan Museum of Art has long been at the top of my list. The large attendance figures for “Heavenly Bodies” can be partly be attributed to its size-the exhibition is spread across several locations at the Met’s Fifth Avenue home base and the Cloisters, its annex in Washington Heights devoted to the museum’s medieval holdings. Heavenly Bodies at the Met This year’s Costume Institute exhibit, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, is the largest to date, spread out in three sites at two museums. I was dazzled by the Heavenly Bodies exhibition which is currently on at The Met. The prior record for a Costume Institute show was held by 2015’s “China: Through the Look Glass,” which the Met said was seen by more than 800,000 people. Andrew Bolton Barbara Drake Boehm Marzia Cataldi Gallo C Griffith Mann David Morgan All authors New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018 2018. According to an ARTnews survey from 2015, the Tutankhamun show and a 1963 presentation of the Mona Lisa are the only other two exhibitions to have received more than 1 million visitors since the museum has been open.Ĭostume Institute exhibitions tend to attract large crowds. At The Met Fifth Avenue May 10OctoExhibition Overview The Costume Institutes spring 2018 exhibitionat The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloistersfeatures a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashions ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.
In a release, the Met said that the previous show to hold that record was the 1978 exhibition “Treasures of Tutankhamun,” which was reportedly seen by 1,360,957 people. After A-list guests pose for photographs on the steps of The Met Fifth Avenue and enter its hallowed halls, theyll experience the museums extraordinary new.
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