![]() This is the largest exhibit for both the Costume Institute and for The Met in museum history. The Met's 2018 Costume Institute exhibition, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” is organized by the museum's Costume Institute in collaboration with the department of Medieval Art. The Costume Institute organizes a spring exhibition each year, the opening of which on the first Monday in May is accompanied by The Met Gala – one of the most eagerly anticipated events in the annual fashion calendar. Anna Wintour, a trustee of the New York Metropolitan Museum, editor-in-chief of American Vogue and the artistic director of Condé Nast, is widely regarded as the most influential figure in fashion. In May 2014 the redesigned Costume Institute space reopened after a two-year renovation as the Anna Wintour Costume Center. The 42 ecclesiastical masterworks came from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, and many of them had never been seen outside the Vatican.The Costume Institute in the Metropolitan Museum began as the Museum of Costume Art, an independent entity formed in 1937. A group of papal robes and accessories from the Vatican served as the cornerstone of the exhibition, highlighting the enduring influence of liturgical vestments on designers. The thematic exhibition presented a dialogue between fashion and masterworks of medieval art in The Met collection to examine fashion’s ongoing engagement with the traditions of Catholicism. Schwarzman, and Versace for lead sponsorship of the exhibition, and to Condé Nast for additional support. The Met is grateful to Christine and Stephen A. ![]() Organized by Bolton in collaboration with The Met’s Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, the exhibition spanned The Met Fifth Avenue’s medieval galleries, Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art, part of The Robert Lehman Wing (this section closed September 9), and the Anna Wintour Costume Center, as well as The Met Cloisters in northern Manhattan. Heavenly Bodies is the largest exhibition that either The Costume Institute or The Met has ever mounted, covering 60,000 square feet in 25 galleries. ![]() All four exhibitions were curated by Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute. Previous Costume Institute exhibitions, which are among The Met’s most attended shows, include Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (2011), which had 661,509 visitors China: Through the Looking Glass (2015), with 815,992 visitors and Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology (2016), with 752,995 visitors. It was the highest fiscal year attendance in the Museum’s recorded history, due in part to attendance for Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, which brought in more than 700,000 visitors during its run from November 13, 2017, through February 12, 2018, making it the 10th most attended show in the Museum’s history. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2018, The Met welcomed more than 7.35 million visitors to its three locations-The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer. More than 1.43 million people saw Heavenly Bodies at The Met Fifth Avenue, and 228,737 at The Met Cloisters. (New York, October 11, 2018)-The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination attracted 1,659,647 visitors to The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters during its run from May 10 to October 8, making it the Museum’s most visited exhibition, exceeding the prior number one show, Treasures of Tutankhamun (1978), which had 1,360,957 visitors.
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