The the Catholic Imagination exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was the largest and most visited in the venue's history. More than 1.6 million people visited the show, beating the previous record of 1.3 million for 1978's Treasures of Tutankhamun. the Catholic Imagination: Fashion and Heavenly Bodies was the theme of the exhibition for the Met Gala in May. It remained on show until 8 October. The exhibition was a “dialogue between fashion and masterworks of medieval art” the museum said.
The Heavenly Bodies exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was the largest and most visited in the venue's history. More than 1.6 million people visited the show, beating the previous record of 1.3 million for 1978's Treasures of Tutankhamun. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination was the theme of the exhibition for the Met Gala in May. It remained on show until 8 October. The exhibition was a “dialogue between fashion and masterworks of medieval art” the museum said.