Today ended up being a very arty, garden-y day.
We started off exploring the Highline, which was an amazing mix of industrial design and the softness of gardens. What a great idea to transform this old freight tracks to a shared garden space. Urban renewal to the nth degree!
Our next ‘destination’ was The Metropolitan Museum of Art, so we walked leisurely through Central Park again. Just as busy as yesterday, with cyclists, joggers, dog walkers, families, picnickers, kids’ birthday parties etc… We saw the lakes this time, which looked pretty idyllic with rowing boats and water fowl floating around.
The Met was pretty amazing, as expected. Unbelievably, my bad luck with costume exhibits continued (does everyone remember my ill-fated trip to the V&A costume department last year? I certainly hadn’t forgotten, but I don’t expect it to happen again!) and the Costume Institute was closed. Sigh. Nevertheless, as we were about to leave, we stumbled across a series of talks about one of the combined exhibits, ‘Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity’, which featured a talk about corsetry from Valerie Steele, author of ‘The Corset: a cultural history’ which I have on my bookshelf. Great discussions, and it renewed my intention of finding the exhibit in the maze of partially connected rooms at the Met!
The exhibit was great – some beautiful specimens of dresses, accessories and men’s clothing, accompanied by glorious art from the period featuring more delicious fashions.
As we were running out of time by this point, we didn’t go into the Guggenheim, apart from popping in to grab a pressie for Mum.
Then it was time to head down to Broadway to catch ‘Chicago’. Great show, if you get the chance! We were in the mezzanine level, and I would’ve thought that $100/ticket would bought a little more elbow room – we were packed in like sardines! Great view though, and the songs and choreographies were fantastic! Then we walked down Broadway to Times Square and caught the subway home. Whew!
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