Sunday perfection…weather, the company, the activities.

We headed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for members early hours starting at 9am.

The walk across Central Park was invigorating. The park was very busy on a spring like Sunday morning after the torrential rain we endured all day Saturday.

We were among the first visitors and quickly made our way through the deserted museum….just us and all the sculpted antiquities.

My family strolled toward the very popular showing  by the Costume Institute running through March 10th.

Women Dressing Women celebrates the creativity and artistic legacy of women designers.

80 articles of clothing document the work of more than 70 clothing makers who influenced women-led fashion houses from the 20th century to the present,

Designers represented in the exhibit dating from 1910 to today include French haute couture from houses such as Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli and Madeleine Vionnet, to American makers Ann Lowe, Claire McCardell and Isabel Toledo, along with contemporary designs by Iris van Herpen, Rei Kawakubo, Anifa Mvuemba, and Simone Rocha.

Four key notions, anonymity, visibility, agency, and absence/omissions, offer a new interpretation of fashion history and examine the ways in which the industry has served as a powerful vehicle for women’s social, financial and creative autonomy.

Take the tour:

The other exhibit perused is the groundbreaking exhibition, The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism that runs through July 28, 2024.

The exhibit explores 160 works and the comprehensive ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s, especially in New York City’s Harlem and Chicago’s South Side during the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South.

I was not familiar with most of the artists. Several Matisse paintings are in the exhibit as Matisse was greatly influenced by the movement when he visited New York.

Take the tour:

We just had to revisit the Temple of Dendur mostly due to the incredible morning light along with the elegant Degas sculpture:

The walk home was as intoxicating.

We devoured a delicious brunch and further enjoyed the glorious weather.

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