This museum is as timeless as its artifacts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently ranked number one on a countdown of the 20 most popular US businesses of all time on Yelp. The review site released the lofty list to celebrate its 20th birthday next month, rating businesses based on total volume, ratings of reviews … Read more
Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? A new spot from the Cervos team, a sparkling Met … Read more
Like true love’s kiss to a fairy-tale princess, fashion is waking things up. Resurrecting centuries-old finery via artificial intelligence and sensory simulation, the 2024 Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — entitled “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” — isn’t just a sight to behold. It’s also to be felt, heard and sniffed. Bolton … Read more
We hope you got your beauty sleep — the biggest night in fashion is finally here. The Met Gala, held on the first Monday in May at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fundraises for the Costume Institute and marks the opening of its spring 2024 exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” However, the charity event is more … Read more
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Think traffic’s bad on your commute? Spare a thought for the visiting hordes battling a painful kind of gridlock most New Yorkers will never experience — waiting in line for some of the Big Apple’s top tourist attractions. A new study found that seven of the 20 most complained-about queues in the United States were … Read more
A 19th-century family portrait that was altered to cover up an enslaved teenager has been recently restored to its original version. The painting, initially etched on canvas, is now set to hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art this fall after half a century in hiding. The rare Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans attributed work from … Read more
The art world is up in arms, from collectors to curators – donors to docents. They are all furious about a host of major museums selling works by some of America’s best-loved artists. And one of the most contentious of these sell-offs is happening this week at the venerable Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. … Read more
He was snug as a bug on the red carpet. Amid a sea of the world’s most glamorous A-list celebs, it was a lowly vermin that stole the show: A cockroach undoubtedly solidified its spot atop the pantheon of famous New York Pests after it was spotted scurrying down the aisle at this year’s Met … Read more
It’s the first Monday in May which means, for the most stylish among us, it’s Met Gala day. This year, the exhibit at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicated to the late designer Karl Lagerfeld, whose 65-year career saw him at the helms of Chloé, Fendi and Chanel. Follow The Post’s live coverage as … Read more
Karl Lagerfeld hated fashion exhibitions. “Fashion does not belong in a museum,” he once told Andrew Bolton, the curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “It belongs in the street — on the backs of living women, not motionless mannequins.” “I have no interest in the past,” he added. “I’m only … Read more
Seven words from Karl Lagerfeld adorn a doorway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s sumptuous new exhibit honoring the late, legendary designer: “Fashion does not belong in a museum.” Andrew Bolton, who masterminds the New York museum’s blockbuster Costume Institute shows each year, chuckled as he led a visitor through that doorway this weekend, a few days before … Read more
This Met Gala look landed AOC in the dog house — so it’s only fitting that a plucky pooch pays homage to it at an upcoming pet gala. Two-year-old Edna the Runt will strut her stuff in a mini version of the socialist pol’s “Tax the Rich” dress during the upcoming Griff Gala — a black-tie ‘paw’-ty … Read more
According to billionaire Leonard Stern, he is doing a “great thing” for art lovers in Greece and America. But some of Greece’s politicians, historians and art scholars beg to differ. At the center of this controversy is an esteemed collection of antiquities from the Cyclade islands, off of the Greek coast, dating back thousands of … Read more