

New York, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), QED: A Journal in GLBTQ. In total, the Met logged a record setting 7.35 million visitors in its fiscal year, which ended on June 30. Roden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art of.

The record number of visitors eclipses some of the Met's best-known exhibitions, including Treasures of Tutankhamun (1978), which had 1,360,957 visitors, and Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011), which had 661,509 visitors. (There were 1.43 million visitors to the exhibition in the Fifth avenue building and 228,737 to the Cloisters.)

Heavenly Bodies, which was organised by Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in charge of the Costume Institute, was spread throughout galleries in the Met's Fifth Avenue building and in the Cloisters in upper Manhattan. Installation views of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Fifth Avenue) New York, New York May 10. 10 May at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination May 10October 8.
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Over the course of five months, 1,659,647 visitors made their way through the show, which was organised under the auspices of the museum's Costume Institute and kicked off by the annual Met Gala.Ĭombining contemporary dresses by the likes of Versace and Dolce & Gabbana with unprecedented loans from the Sistine Chapel Sacristy, visitors were drawn by the show’s glittering dresses, exquisite vestments, and a room full of jewelled tiaras on loan from the Vatican. of the many surprises at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Exhibition. NEW YORK, United States - Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, which closed on October 8, was the most visited exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 148 year history.
