Sargent and Paris The Met Museum Part 2

This is the 2nd part of the Sargent and Paris exhibit held at the Met Museum which is now on view at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris until January 11, 2026. 

So beautiful 

The colors here are striking 

One of my most favorites of the exhibit 

They look real, don't they ? 

Gorgeous ! 

Sargent

The Paris Years (1874-1884)

From September 23rd, 2025 to January 11th, 2026

The Musée d'Orsay in Paris 

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The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey

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.

It does not get better than this ! 

The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey On View: 

April 18th - October 22nd, 2023

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

Hours: 10 am–5 pm

Extended Hours: Fri. and Sat., 10 am–9 pm

Closed: Wednesday

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Van Gogh's Cypresses at The Met

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! 

Van Gough's Cypresses is on view at The Met from May 22nd - August 27th 2023

Hours: 10 am–5 pm

Extended Hours: Fri. and Sat., 10 am–9 pm

Closed: Wednesday

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Van Gogh's Cypresses

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 Instagram as 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.

Van Gough's Cypresses is on view at The Met from May 22nd - August 27th 2023

Hours: 10 am–5 pm

Extended Hours: Fri. and Sat., 10 am–9 pm

Closed: Wednesday

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In Pursuit of Fashion On View until Sept 27 2020

A wonderful fashion exhibit at the Met now on view extended until September 27, 2020. This really was a wonderful fashion treat and I highly suggest you try to visit before it closes the end of the month. 

From the Met's website:  

The Costume Institute's fall 2019 exhibition features promised gifts from Sandy Schreier, a pioneering collector, who over the course of more than half a century assembled one of the finest private fashion collections in the United States. The show explores how Schreier amassed a trove of twentieth-century French and American couture and ready-to-wear, not as a wardrobe, but in appreciation of this form of creative expression.

The gift is part of The Met's 2020 Collections Initiative celebrating the Museum's 150th anniversary. In Pursuit of Fashion features approximately 80 of the 165 promised gifts, including womenswear, accessories, and fashion illustrations dating from a 1908 pochoir album, Les Robes de Paul Poiret, developed in collaboration with Paul Iribe to a 2004 Phillip Treacy butterfly hat.

This is really a lovely exhibit showcasing many designers and some items where the designer is not even known! A real treat for the eye! 

Beautiful draping going on here

 I just love anything with embroidery 

In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection
At The Met Fifth Avenue
NOVEMBER 27, 2019–SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Beginning on Saturday, August 29, The Met Fifth Avenue hours will be as follows:

Thursday and Friday: 12–7 p.m.

Saturday–Monday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Closed Tuesday and Wednesday

You can check the Met's website for the safety measures in place during this time of COVID-19. 

Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1, and the first Monday in May. Friday evenings are made possible by the Ruth Lapham Lloyd Trust. Saturday evenings are made possible by the William H. Kearns Foundation.

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