Happy Memorial Day ! I hope you are all enjoying the start of summer. This is the most fabulous exhibit on the roof garden at The Met which is on view until October 22, 2023 and highly recommended! If you are at the museum on a beautiful day, there is nothing more enjoyable that visiting the exhibit on the roof. This year's exhibit is very cool, and the views are to die for.
Here is some information on the exhibit from The Met:
American artist Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles) has been commissioned to create a site-specific installation for The Met's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Halsey will create a full-scale architectural structure imbued with the collective energy and imagination of the South Central Los Angeles Community where she was born and continues to work. Titled the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I), the installation is designed to be inhabited by The Met’s visitors, who will be able to explore its connections to sources as varied as ancient Egyptian symbolism, 1960s utopian architecture, and contemporary visual expressions like tagging that reflect the ways in which people aspire to make public places their own.
Here are a few more photographs from the wonderful paintings at the Van Gogh Cypresses exhibit which is on view until August 27th 2023. This is a must see exhibit if you are an art lover, and I would highly suggest planning a visit this summer.
This was probably my favorite and I am looking at obtaining a print to hang on the wall in my home. The colors are just so magnificent and make you smile!
Be sure you are following me on Instagram as there will be more photos showcased there from this beautiful exhibit! I would love to see you and please give a comment and say hello!
Happy Monday! I hope you are all having a fabulous month of May! I cannot believe Memorial Day is almost here! I had the pleasure of attending the press event for the new exhibit which opens today, Van Gogh's Cypresses, at The Met. It was great to be back in the swing of things in my favorite city, and the exhibit will blow your minds. The work is just incredible and a once in a lifetime opportunity to see all these works together.
Here is some information from The Met:
“The show is a dream come true,” said Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. “Marking the 170th-anniversary year of Van Gogh’s birth, this highly focused survey unpacks his distinctive vision of the commanding cypress trees. A once-in-a-lifetime gathering of works presents both an overview and an intimate glimpse of his creative process, challenging prevailing notions with fresh insights.” The trees Van Gogh painted, which were a fixture of Provence, France where he was living when he created these paintings (1888-1890), were not so much background characters in his works but recurring stars. According to The Met, Van Gogh was taken by these flame-like cypresses from the beginning of his two-year stay in the South of France. In letters to his bother, he expressed a “need” to paint them.
“To find the real character of things here, you have to look at them and paint them for a long time,” he wrote.
How cool to see this up close ! Just amazing !!
There will be a few more posts on this to showcase some other paintings in the exhibit, please be sure to follow me on Instagramas I will be sharing lots of photos there from this exhibit as well as my travels into the city. I appreciate you all who visit this blog and hope that you learn some new things about one of the best cities in the world. I love sharing information to make your trip to NYC the best it can possibly be!
The exhibition is made possible by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.
Additional support is provided by the Janice H. Levin Fund, Katharine Rayner, and the Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed Fund.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
The catalogue is made possible by the Janice H. Levin Fund.
Additional support is provided by Adrian Sassoon and Edmund Burke.
The new fashion exhibit for this year looks to be amazing and I am hoping to bring you live coverage of the exhibit this year. I can't believe it's been 2 years since I attended the press event for the fashion or any exhibits at the Met. I am so looking forward to this one and love the fact you can view both of the exhibits together! Here is some information from the Met:
The Costume Institute’s In America: An Anthology of Fashion is the second portion of a two-part exhibition exploring fashion in the United States. Presented in collaboration with The Met’s American Wing, this section of the exhibition will highlight sartorial narratives that relate to the complex and layered histories of the American Wing period rooms.
Men’s and women’s dress dating from the eighteenth century to the present will be featured in vignettes installed in select period rooms spanning ca. 1805 to 1915: a Shaker Retiring Room from the 1830s; a nineteenth-century parlor from Richmond, Virginia; a panoramic 1819 mural of Versailles; and a twentieth-century living room designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. These interiors display a survey of more than two hundred years of American domestic life and tell a variety of stories—from the personal to the political, the stylistic to the cultural, and the aesthetic to the ideological. The exhibition will reflect on these narratives through a series of three-dimensional cinematic “freeze frames” produced in collaboration with notable American film directors. These mise-en-scènes will explore the role of dress in shaping American identity and address the complex and layered histories of the rooms.
Part one, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion—currently on view in the Anna Wintour Costume Center—establishes a modern vocabulary of American fashion based on its expressive qualities.
On View From:
May 7 – September 5, 2022
It is great that the (2) fashion exhibits will be on at the same time so you can view both on the same day. What a great day in the city to enjoy some high fashion, have lunch and maybe some shopping!
The Costume Institute’s In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, launches a two-part exploration of fashion in the United States in the Anna Wintour Costume Center. It establishes a modern vocabulary of American fashion based on its expressive qualities.
This portion of the exhibition uses the organizing principle of a patchwork quilt. A signature quilt begun in 1856 from The Met's American Wing collection opens the show, and serves as a metaphor for the United States and its varied cultural identities.
Approximately 100 men’s and women’s ensembles by a diverse range of designers from the 1940s to the present are featured. Enclosed in scrimmed cases that represent three-dimensional “patches” of a quilt, they are organized into 12 sections that explore defining emotional qualities: Nostalgia, Belonging, Delight, Joy, Wonder, Affinity, Confidence, Strength, Desire, Assurance, Comfort, and Consciousness.
Part two, In America: An Anthology of Fashion—opening in the American Wing period rooms on May 7, 2022—will present sartorial narratives that relate to the complex and layered histories of those rooms.
On View From:
September 18, 2021 – September 5, 2022
Virtual Group Tours available by request.
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Because guidelines can change due to the pandemic, I would highly check out the museum's page to know exactly what you need to do when you plan your visit:
Happy Monday ! I cannot believe this is the last week in May! I do not know where the time is going, but hoping that the rest of 2021 will be better for folks in terms of travel and events. New York City is officially re-opening July 1st but many museums are already open, you need to be sure to pick up your timed tickets in advance. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been open a while now, so I thought I would highlight some of their current and upcoming exhibits.
I have not listed all of them, so you can check on their website for a total list of what will be coming up. These are the exhibits I hope to see in person, and there are quite a few that are very exciting indeed. If you cannot get to the museum yet in person, they are still doing virtual events and shopping is available online as well.
I just watched a wonderful documentary on the Met at PBS which can also be streamed on Amazon via the PBS app titled Inside the Met which is a must see. It shows you behind the scenes all the work that goes into the wonderful displays we are able to view and those who keep all the artifacts in the best shape possible.
What exhibit are you most excited to see when you return ?
THE NEW BRITISH GALLERYSMARCH 2, 2020–ONGOING - 11,000 square feet devoted to British decorative arts, design, and sculpture created between 1500 and 1900.
IN PRAISE OF PAINTING: DUTCH MASTERPIECES AT THE MET - OCTOBER 16, 2018-ONGOING - Through sixty-seven works of art organized thematically, In Praise of Painting orients visitors to key issues in seventeenth-century Dutch culture—from debates about religion and conspicuous consumption to painters' fascination with the domestic lives of women.
A NEW LOOK AT OLD MASTERS - DECEMBER 12, 2020 TO SPRING 2022 - A New Look at Old Masters will explore a variety of themes in The Met's collection of European painting, creating new dialogues among the works and including a large presentation of sculpture
JAPAN: A HISTORY OF STYLE - MARCH 8, 2021 TO APRIL 24, 2022 - This exhibition celebrates how gifts and acquisitions of the last decade have transformed The Met’s ability to narrate the story of Japanese art by both expanding and deepening the range of remarkable artworks that can meaningfully elucidate the past. Each of the ten rooms that make up the Arts of Japan Galleries features a distinct genre, school, or style, representing an array of works in nearly every medium, from ancient times to the present.
UPCOMING EXHIBIITS
THE MEDICI: PORTRAITS & POLITICS, 1512-1570 - JUNE 26, 2021 TO OCTOBER 11, 2021 - Through an outstanding group of portraits, this major loan exhibition will introduce visitors to the new and complex ways artists portrayed the elite of Medicean Florence, representing the sitters' political and cultural ambitions and conveying the changing sense of what it meant to be a Florentine at this defining moment in the city's history.
THE NEW WOMAN BEHIND THE CAMERA - JULY 2 TO OCTOBER 3, 2021 - The New Woman of the 1920s was a powerful expression of modernity, a global phenomenon that embodied an ideal of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art. Featuring more than 120 photographers from over 20 countries, this groundbreaking exhibition explores the work of the diverse "new" women who embraced photography as a mode of professional and artistic expression from the 1920s through the 1950s. During this tumultuous period shaped by two world wars, women stood at the forefront of experimentation with the camera and produced invaluable visual testimony that reflects both their personal experiences and the extraordinary social and political transformations of the era.
IN AMERICA: A LEXICON OF FASHION - SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 TO SEPTEMBER 5, 2022 -The galleries will feature a fictional American home constructed of transparent walls that intersect and overlap, blurring the boundaries of the rooms. Examples of twentieth- and twenty-first-century fashion will populate the interiors, reflecting the customs and behaviors of the imagined occupants. Designs by pioneers of American sportswear will be displayed alongside works by a diverse group of contemporary designers to illustrate a shifting emphasis in American fashion defined by feelings of fear, delight, comfort, anxiety, well-being, loneliness, happiness, belonging, and responsibility, among other qualities.
GIFTS IN CELEBRATION OF THE MUSEUM'S ANNIVERSARY- JANUARY 1, 2020 TO DECEMBER 31, 2021 - The Met's 150th anniversary is an exciting opportunity to further evolve the institution's encyclopedic collection in all curatorial areas, with an eye toward presenting multiple historical narratives. The Museum has received exceptional gifts from more than 150 generous collectors and supporters in honor of the anniversary, ranging from important individual artworks to large collections comprising many dozens of objects.
The Met is probably one of my most favorite parts of the city, as I have been visiting for so long! It is an experience like no other, and one you will never forget. All museums need our support now, and they give so much back to us in return.
You can schedule your timed ticket on their website - As of May 24th they are still requiring face coverings on everyone who enters whether vaccinated or not. Check their website for any changes to this guideline.
The press event is always interesting to attend, I remember the first time I saw Bill Cunningham walking around taking photographs and I felt so excited.
It is awesome to be in the Met when it is closed to the public, they do have before hour tours which I would highly recommend.
This was hard to photograph as inside glass but I think it came out well. Love the butterflies!
How do you walk in this gown? Very slowly, I would imagine.
All of the headpieces were made by Stephen Jones, the most famous milliner from England. Each one compliments the designs so perfectly.
So much fun, right ?
Left: Walter Van Beirendonck (Belgian, born 1957). Ensemble, spring/summer 2009. Courtesy of Walter Van Beirendonck. Right: Vivienne Westwood (British, born 1941). Ensemble, fall/winter 1989–90. Courtesy of Vivienne Westwood Archive.
Just what every Italian girl needs, a prosciutto dress by Jeremy Scott !
I loved these displays
Probably one of my favorites and I can see these being worn on many people. Just beautiful.
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