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The soon-to-close Met Heavenly Bodies exhibit visited by 1.3 million

Set to conclude in just over a week, the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has had a record-breaking number of visitors. The display, which is currently featured at main museum on Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters location, has reportedly had over 1.3 million visitors while 200,000...

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Metropolitan Museum of Art to host exhibition about jewelry

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, has announced a new exhibition called “Jewelry: the body transformed”. Set to run from November 12 to February 24, 2019, at The Met Fifth Avenue, the exhibition will explore the meanings given to jewelry throughout History. ”A dazzling array of headdresses and ear ornaments, brooches and belts,...

Culture

Catholic 'fashion' items to be displayed in New York

The Vatican will lend around 40 ecclesiastical works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for an exhibition focusing on the Catholic religion's impact on fashion, organisers said on Monday. Items such as papal rings and crowns worn by various popes from the 18th and 19th centuries will go on display, including precious treasures from...

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Rihanna, Amal and Donatella named Met Gala 2018 hosts

It's the most sought after invitation in the celebrity universe -- and on Wednesday, Amal Clooney, Rihanna and Donatella Versace were named co-chairs of next year's glittering Met Gala in New York. Held every year on the first Monday in May, the black-tie extravaganza is the chief source of income for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume...

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Harold Koda to retire from Costume Institute

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is losing one of its most powerful forces behind the scenes. Harold Koda, the curator in charge of the Met, has announced that after a long and successful career he will be retiring at the early part of next year. A spokesperson for the Costume Institute has declined to comment on Koda's retirement, but Koda...

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Schiaparelli and Prada Met Ball

On Monday the Costume Institute Gala in New York City hosted its annual Met Ball with the exhibition: "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations." Chaired by US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, the event sees the best of fashion and couture worn by the world's leading designers, models, actresses and socialites. Images: Getty Images,...